Excursions to Brighton - Geologists' Association

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From: A record of excursions made between 1860 and 1890. Edited by Thomas Vincent Holmes , F.G.S. and C. Davies Sherborn, F.G.S. London: Edward Stanford [For the Geologists’ Association], 1891. Source: Cornell University copy on the Internet Archive (Public domain work)

Brighton was first visited in 1866 while the issue of Proceedings was suspended. The next excursion there took place in 1873, the Directors being Dr. Henry Woodward, F.R.S., and Prof. T. Rupert Jones. A brief report of it is given Proc., vol. iii. p. 239. On arrival at Brighton the party first visited the Devil's Dyke, and there the various theories advanced to account for the denudation of the Weald were discussed by the Directors. Returning to Brighton by way of the Western Valley and past Furze Hill, the area of the Tertiary deposits, the party alighted at Kemp Town to observe the "Elephant Bed," which was especially well seen in consequence of a recent fall of a portion of the cliff. After luncheon the Museum and Aquarium were visited.

Brighton, Newhaven and Seaford were the scene of an excursion on Easter Monday. and Tuesday (April 11th and 12th) 1887; Henry Willett and W. Topley, F.R.S., being Directors. An account of this excursion appears in Proc., vol. x. p. 141. Many of the members who were present at Brighton in 1887 had slept at Bognor on the two previous nights, and while there had visited Pagham Church and Selsea Bill under the guidance of W. Whitaker, F.R.S.

On July, 12th, 1890, there was an excursion to Arundel, the Director being Clement Reid.