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12 ~ENT. [KELLY'S r 4th Volunteer Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West Kent Biddenden, November 8, for cattle Regiment); Lieut. Col. &; Hon. Col. F. A. Newington. Bromley, market day, thursday CQmmanding; Lieut. H. J. Driver, instructor of mus Canterbury, in October; market days, wednesdays &; sat. ketry; Capt. E. M. K. Parsons, adjutant; H. Hayman, & cattle markets fortnightly, on mondays quarter-master; Surg.-Lieut. A. T. F. Brown M.B. &; Cheriton, stock sale every monday Surg.-Lieut. H. J. Bryan. medical officers; Rev. Oanon Cranbrook, May 30 &; September 29, for horses &; cattle H. O. PoIlock M.A. acting chaplain; head quarters, & hop & corn market every alternate wednesday 6a., High street, Ohatham Crayford, August 24 Companies: A, Capt. H. T. Homan; E, Capt. W. Nash Dartf(}rd, August 2; cattle market, tuesda.y & C, Oapt. H. J. Oobb, , Rochester; Dover, market day, saturday D, 2nd Lieut. H. F. Cobb, Higham; E, Oapt. W. T. Dymchurch, last saturday in Whitsun week, for pleasure Boucher &; F, Capt. A. B. Hearn, 6a, High street, Chat.. Edenbridge, a stock market every mono & fat stock barn; G, Capt. R. J. Passby, New Brompton; H, show annually in December Capt. J. E. Castle, Gillingham; K (Cyclists), Oapt. Farningham, October IS, particularly for cart colts W. L. Wylie, Rochester Faversham, October II & two following days; market days, wednesday &; saturday; cattle market, fort- t Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers). nightly, on tuesday Thames District, Maidstone Companies, Major C: Pye Gillingham, Easter monday Oliver M.D. in command; Lieut. W. E. Fry &; Lieut. Gravesend, October 24; market day, saturday J. M. Rogers-Tilstone, company officers; Hon. Capt. Ham Street, near Ashford, cattle &; sheep, last thursday W. J. Saveall, quarter-master; Rev. C. G. Duffield in August M.A. acting chaplain; head quarters, The Old Palace, Ightham, wednesday in Whitsun week, called Cocks- Maidstone combe fair Kennington, July 6 C1ll.MBERS OF AGRICULTURE. Lamberhurst, April 6 Maidstone, February 13, May 12, June 20 &; October 17 t Canterbury Farmers' Club & East Kent Chamber of Agri the last the great hop fair; market days, thursday culture, R. W. Wood, chairman; Edwin L. Gardener, for c()rn, seeds & hops & III stock market on tuesday sec. 69 Castle street, Canterbury West MaIling, November 17 Maidstone, Frederick Smith, Loddington, Linton, nr. Margate, market days, wednesday & saturday Maidstone, chairman; Henry James Bracher, sec. 33 New Romney, August 21, principally for sheep &; lambs Earl street, Maidstone Pluckley, November 4, for toys & pedlery Ramsgate, market days, wednesday &:, saturday ROl'lhester, May 18; market day, tuesday, for corn &; CHAMBERS OF COMMEROE. cattle Ramsgate & Dist,rict Incorporated Chamber of Commerce Sandhurst, May 25, for cattle &; Trade Society Limited, J. H. Olutton, president; Sandwich, corn market wednesday &; cattle market every John W. Scarlett, sec. 36 High street, Ramsgate alternate monday Tunbridge Wells, Tonbridge & District, E. Stevenson Sevenoaks, stock market, third wednesday , Barton, president; George H. Howard, hon. soo.; J. Sittingbourne, corn, market day on friday Merrell, act,ing sec.; office, 36 Mount Pleasant, Tun Smeeth, May 15 &; September 29 bridge Wells Strood, August 26, 27 &; 28 Tenterden, first monday in May for cattle &; wool, first friday in September for lambs FAIRS AND MARKETS. Tonbridge, cattle market, on tuesday, cattle fair last Appledore, fourth monday in June, for stock &; pedlery week in October Ashford, May 17 &; 18, September 9, October 12, 13 &; Tunbridge Wells, market day, friday 24 for horses, cattle &; pedlery; market day, tuesday, Westerham, May 3rd for cattle; market day, wednesday for corn &; cattle Wittersham., May 12, for pedlery Benenden, May IS, for cattle Wye, October 11 GEOLOGY OF KENT NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIEs.-eroydon p. 43I. 1880. Davies, W.-The Musk-Ox at Crayford. Microscopical Club, Report: East Kent Natural History Geol. Mag. p. 246. 1880. Ettingshausen, Baron Von. .society, Canterbury; Folkestone Natural History Society; Report on }'ossil Flora of Sheppey. Geol. Mag. p. 37. Maidstone Natural History and Philosophical Society; West L881. Shrubsole, W. H.-Diatoms of the London Clay. Kent Natural History and Microscopi~lSociety; Mid-Kent Journ. Roy. Microscopical Society, P.381. Natural History Society. THE inhabitants of Kent have great facilities for the study MusEUMs.-Ganterbury Museum; Museum in Fort Pitt, of the rocks of their county. All along the coast admirable Chatham; Museum in Royal Engineers' Barracks,Chatham; sections are exposed in the cliffs, and inland the absence of Dover Museum; Folkestone :Museum ; Greenwich Museum; the surface deposits which, under the name of drift, so ob Maidstone Public :Museum; The Rotunda Museum, Wool scure the geology of the counties north of the Thames, per wich. mits the various strata to be traced with comparative ease. PUBLICATIONS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SUnVEy.-..?/:faps. The entire'-county has been mapped by the Geological Sheets: I, 'London; 2, Sheerness; 3, Canterbury, Margate, Survey, and these maps, on the scale of one inch to a mile, Ramsgate, Dover; 4, Folkestone, Hye; 5, Hastings, New are so coloured that anyone can determine by their aid baven, Hailsham; 6, Bromley, Chatham, Maidstone, Tun the exact character of the rocks of the neighbourhood in bridge. Books: The Geology of the Country between which he may happen to dwell. There are also two admir Folkestone and Rye, by F. Drew, IS.; Geology of the Weald, able memoirs pnblished by the same department explaining by W. Topley, 28s. ; Geology of the London Basin, by W. the maps, and giving full particulars of the various sections Whitaker, 13s. and fossils: the first of these, by Mr. Whitaker, is entitled , .IMPORTANT WORKS OR BAPERS ON LOCAL GEOLOGY. the "Geology of the London Basin," and -describes the 'See Lists of Works on Geology of this county in the two northern part of the couuty; whilst Mr. Topley's "Geology Government Survey memoirs, Whitaker's Geology of the of the Weald" is a full and faithful authority for the re 'London Basin, and Topley's Geology of the Weald. 1874. mainder of the district. These works represent the sum of ;Price, F. G. H.-The Gault of Folkestone. Journ. Geol.Soc. our present knowledge, towardil which many hard workers lVol.xXX. p. 342. 1874. Topley,W.-The Channel Tunnel. in the field of geological science have contributed; among Popular Science Review, vol. xiii. p. 394. 1877.Lucas,J. whom may be mentioned Drs. Mantell and Fitton, Sir Charles "'he Chalk Water System. Proc. Inst. Civil Eng. vol. xlvii. Lyell, Messrs. Martin, Godwin-Austen, S. V. Wood, jun. and p. 70. 1877. ''-:Price; F. G. H.-Beds between Gault and Professor Prestwich. The works of Mantell and Lyell are Upper. Chalk near Folkestone. Journ. Geol: Soc. vol.xxx;iii. well known, but .many valuable papers by other authors.