as I have not yet made an admeasurement with instruments, 

 which I expect soon to do. 



Advancing into the wood at the top of the hill, our President 

 observed on the scrubby oak trees some galls, which proved to be 

 those of the (.'i/nijn* quercus petiolata, which could not have beeii 

 introduced into our county more than two years. A few weeks 

 after I found the same thing very sparingly in Oakley Park, and 

 perhaps at present the park is the furthest easterly limit to which 

 it has attained. 



In the arable on the same hill was found several specimens of the 

 Ai'i-iHifatita (Wild Oat), which were taken to the hotel for com- 

 parison after dinner with specimens introduced by the Secretary 

 from the College Botanical Garden, when he announced the fact 

 of having produced two types of cultivated oats, viz. the Potatoe 

 and Tartarian forms from the A.fatua, the result having been 

 attained in five years, a circumstance of great agricultural interest, 

 inasmuch as farmers had long maintained that in some land 

 ctdticatedy degenerated in the wild, oat, which is one of our most 

 troublesome weeds. Upon this matter experiments are still going 

 on, and no doubt further facts of interest will be elicited in 

 another season. 



The dinner at the George was a nice affair, no paper however 

 followed, as the time was fully occupied in discussing the Frocester 

 Hill section, and indeed the proceedings terminated all too soon, 

 train time obliging us to close the meeting somewhat abrubtly. 



And here, too, ends the resume of our proceedings for the past 

 session, from which, I think you will agree with me, we may 

 safely conclude that in no former year have we had to record 

 better meetings, they have been uniformly characterised by a 

 good attendance, in which kindly feeling and earnest work have 

 ever prevailed. 



I cannot conclude this Address without referring to the im- 

 portant scientific gathering which took place in our county during 

 the past year I refer to the meeting of the British Association 

 at Cheltenham and while it must be gratifying to our Club to 

 know how successful that meeting was, being indeed one of the 

 best of this important scientific body, it will be doubly so to find 

 the marked respect shown by that august assembly to our little 

 band of naturalists ; for while many of our members held important 

 posts in the different committees, for which they were so well 

 thanked both by the Association and the Town of Cheltenham. 

 The Museum of Geology, got together by Dr. Wright, Mr. 

 Pierson, and the Rev. R. Hepworth and others, will long be refer- 

 red to as the best of its kind to which the British Association was 

 yet ever welcomed. 



It was my intention to have given an analysis of the different 

 Natural History papers read at the Association, but I find that 

 this Address is even now sadly longer than usual, and I shall 

 therefore only just mention a few with which we arc more 

 immediately concerned. 



