12 ~ENT. [KELLY'S r 4th Volunteer Battalion Queen's Own (Royal West 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 , 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; , 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 , October II & two following days; market days, wednesday &; saturday; cattle market, fort- t Royal Army Medical Corps (Volunteers). nightly, on tuesday Thames District, Companies, Major C: Pye Gillingham, Easter monday Oliver M.D. in command; Lieut. W. E. Fry &; Lieut. , 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, & District, E. Stevenson , stock market, third wednesday , Barton, president; George H. Howard, hon. soo.; J. , 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, , 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; 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 . 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 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, ; 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 , 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 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 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