number of the Woolhopo Club. Proceeding along the ridge of 

 of that most interesting line, known as the Malvern Range, for 

 some distance under the guidance of our lamented friend Strick- 

 land, it will long live in the recollection of those who enjoyed it, 

 that he proposed a half hour's halt on one of the peaks, and, 

 while we lay on the greensward around him, gave us such a brief 

 but comprehensive lecture as few save Strickland could give, 

 on the vast and extraordinary disruptions which, as far as human 

 proof could shew, had caused the features of the exquisite land- 

 scape now spread at our feet : shewing how and at what period 

 that wondrous cliff on which we stood was reared, which though 

 now, from the washing away of its apex, stands but a few hundred 

 feet in height, must at one time, in all probability have towered 

 two miles in height above the Worcestershire vale, now stretched 

 at our feet ; while the latter, probably in those days and long 

 after, was a broad arm of the sea, separating England from Wales. 



Deeply as we lament our loss of such a man, endeared to most 

 of us as a friend, as much as admired by all as one of the most 

 eminent naturalists of the day, I cannot but for my own part re- 

 joice that the last recollection we have of him was one so truly 

 characteristic. 



Proceeding through Lord Somers's Park, where we examined 

 some of the Silurian beds, to the inn at Eastnor, (not having 

 time, alas, to make a digression even to see the mistletoe in the 

 oak, a short distance from the end of the ridgeway drive), we 

 reached the inn, and dined, to the number of sixty members of 

 the three Clubs ; the principal feature of the evening being, I think, 

 the appointment of a committee who undertook to draw up for us 

 a Flora of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire. 

 We trust that this may not be lost sight of. A most interesting 

 paper on fishes of his county, was read by Mr. Whateley, and one 

 by Mr. Lees, on the Malvern flora, and one by Mr. JDavies, of 

 Tewkesbury, on the natural history of the swallow. 



On July 16, we again attempted the visit to Sharpness, the 

 pleasure of which, if not altogether lost, had been sadly diminished 

 by the rain ; and this time we were more successful. After 

 breakfasting at the Spread Eagle, at Gloucester, we embarked in 

 the Wave steamer, which took us down the canal to Erampton 

 bridge ; from whence we walked accross to Eretherne Cliff, and 

 returning to the canal proceeded by steamer again to near Pur- 

 ton Cliff, where the Lias and Silurian Strata appear in close 

 proximity. Erom hence we walked by the grand works of the 

 Basin at the mouth of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal to 

 Sharpness Point, a small pleasure ground of Lord Eitzhardinge's, 

 which juts out boldly into the Severn, affording an exquisite view 

 of the lower part of the estuary down to Bristol and Chepstow. 



On August 16, we made a new experiment in our Club, and, 

 emboldened by our previous success, we ventured to invite a large 

 party of Ladies to our meeting at Cirencester. Alas ! the weather 

 was less propitious than our fair guests. The latter came in con- 



