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Besides the Annual General Meeting, the Annual Dinner, and
the long week-end, the Group held five meetings. Four of them
were field trips and the fifth was a visit to the Geological Museum.
For the outdoor trips we visited Walton on Naze, the Red
Crags of Suffolk, Barrington and several other places on the Essex,
Suffolk, and Cambridgeshire borders, and, finally Folkestone. In
all these places those attending found plenty to interest them.
On the trip to the Crags of Suffolk we were once again under
the expert leadership of Mr R. Markham of the Museum at
Ipswich. Those that faced the bad weather at the start were
shown in various places practically the complete succession of the
Bast Anglian Crags. The final stop was at the excellent cliff
section of the Red Crag at Bawdsey. This showed how Walton
must have looked in its heyday. It was interesting on the trip
later in the year to Walton on the Naze to compare the exposure
there with that at Bawdsey.
For the Folkestone trip we were under the leadership of Mr
P. Allen. From there we were able to collect from the Lower
Cretaceous Beds, and so successful was the collecting that it is
hoped to make a return visit sometime.
The other outstanding trip was a visit to Barrington in Cam-
bridgeshire, where in the great Chalk Pit members were able to
collect roughly from the Lower Greensand through to the Upper
Chalk, while some of the more intrepid members of the party
examined the Pleistocene Gravels at the top of the Quarry.
Leaving there a stop was made near Duxford, where examination
of the 'Taele' Gravels was made. The next stop was at Little
Cornard, near Sudbury, where there is an exposure (alas now
overgrown) of Varve Clays. Also examined here was an exposure
of a problematical Freshwater Limestone, which in the literature
has been described as a Remaine Chalk.
The final stop was at Marks Tey, where a further sequence of
Varve Clays were seen, the deposit here being shown to a better
advantage than at Cornard.
For the week-end a visit was made to Hampshire and the Isle
of Wight, with Lymington being the headquarters. In this area
one can see and examine the best sequence of the Eocene suc-
cession of the Hampshire Basin.
Earlier in the year a visit was made to the Geological Museum,
where a special lecture and film show on the Glacial deposits of
Essex was arranged for the Group.
The main item on the agenda at the Annual General Meeting
was a further recorded and illustrated lecture given by Mr Richard
Taylor on his life and work in Africa.
The attendance on all trips was good, and it is gratifying to the
leaders to know that their efforts are appreciated.
R. E. Coates, Secretary.