SESSION 1910-1911. 
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Returning to St. Albans, both sections of the party, and other 
guests, were received and entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Gribbs in 
their garden at Kitchener’s Meads. The situation is a delightful 
one, the garden being picturesquely laid out and bounded on 
one side by the River Ver. After tea the entomologists present 
examined with much interest Mr. Gribbs’ splendid collection of 
butterflies and moths. 
Thus was enjoyably brought to a close the very successful 
St. Albans Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 
Societies. 
Field Meeting, 24th June, 1911. 
BUSHEY, OXHEY, AND WATFOBD HEATH. 
This was the third meeting arranged by Mr. Kidner and 
Mr. Woodhead for the examination, under their direction, of the 
sections exposed in the Bushey railway-cutting, in conjunction 
with the Geologists’ Association ; and the following is a brief 
abstract of Mr. Kidner’s report, which will be found in full in 
the ‘ Proceedings ’ of that Association (vol. xxii, pp. 278-283). 
At Bushey Station the railway lines are on the Chalk, but 
immediately south of the platform, Mr. Woodhead said, the 
“ bottom-bed ” of Reading pebbles occurs, and the lines are on 
it to a few yards beyond the first bridge, except in one or two 
places where higher beds have been let down by dissolution of 
the Chalk. From 8 to 10 ft. thick at the signal-box, it thickens 
to at least 15 ft. at this bridge ; its matrix is a greenish clayey 
sand, coarser than the usual pale sand of the Reading Series; 
and it has the appearance of an ordinary gravel, as described 
by Prestwich (‘Quart. Journ. Greol. Soc.,’ vol. x, p. 91). Above 
it is sand varying in colour, and above the sand is clay, less 
than 3 ft. shown north of the bridge, but h\ ft. thick south of it 
and thickening to 10 ft. near the southern bridge, where it is 
mottled green and red, the pebble-bed thinning concurrently. 
At the northern bridge the section was as follows:—Later 
clayey gravel 3 ft. ; London Clay: clay, sandy below, 4 ft., 
flint-pebbles 3 ins., loamy basement-bed 8 ft. ; Reading Beds: 
clay 5ft. 6 ins., sand 14ft., pebbles 4ft. 6 ins. showing; total, 
37 ft. 3 ins. 
From the southern bridge the party walked to Oxhey Grolf 
Course, where two pits in the Reading sand were seen, one 
showing 9 ft. of pale-greenish sand with several bands of flint- 
pebbles, the other 7 ft. of greenish s^nd streaked with brown 
and a narrow band of flint-pebbles. Other smaller sections 
were also seen. 
After tea at the “ Load of Hay,” Watford Heath, Mr. H. W. 
Stone’s brick-field was visited. Sections exposed at various times 
have been described in reports of previous field meetings. It 
now shows London Clay : brown clay 15 ft., sandy clay with 
