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After dinner some papers were read, which will appear in our 

 annuls, and Mr. Jones exhibited a small and evidently simple 

 instrument, which shewed such marvellous effects of the poweis of 

 extremely rapid rotation ; that, although perhaps it was only an ex- 

 tension of the powers of the humming-top, yet it was so wonderful 

 an extension, that no more business was done that evening, and the 

 fixing of the meetings for that summer were postponed till our next 

 Club day. 



On May 18, a considerable party met at Stroud, and walked to 

 the newly-erected Cemetery ; where, in addition to a beautiful view 

 of the Valley of Stroud, opening into the great Vale of the Severn, 

 was found a very curious and interesting fault exposed (as all faults 

 must be) by the levelling of the Graveyard. Nor were we less 

 pleased or interested by a collection of curiosities at the house of the 

 Keeper of the Grounds, which shewed that, where taste and 

 ingenuity exist, wealth is not necessary to develope them. 



We also visited another fault of about thirty feet in a quarry at 

 Swift's Hill, and then walked to Stroud Glade, where, in a farmyard, 

 we found the yet vigorous remains of a "Wytch Elm, hardly to be 

 matched in England. Alas! we were unprovided with measures, 

 and determined to return at a future time better provided which 

 determination, like many others, has never been carried out. We 

 decided, however, that it was about sixty feet in circumference, and 

 though only a thin shell of wood was attached to the bark, yet the 

 latter was entire, with the exception of a gap some three feet wide, 

 by Avhich we entered, and a hole cut in the opposite side, through 

 which a handle had worked, when the hollow had been used as a 

 convenient shed for a cyder-press. The shell, I think, was from 

 fifteen to twenty feet high, and from thence rose a very vigorous 

 growth of young wood, which is frequently lopped, to prevent its 

 weight from breaking the thin shell of trunk. The manner in which 

 the bark has rounded the edges of some of the small holes in the 

 tree, and formed a complete rose in the hollow, is most curious. 



On Wednesday, June 30, a very small party set forth from 

 Tewkesbury to visit the quarries on Brockridge Common, hoping to 

 find there some of our Members who knew the spot, and had pro- 

 mised to attend. After waiting some time, and seeing little, they 

 walked to the neighbouring Church at Ripple, where there was 

 much to please the archaeologist, especially when shown by the 

 kind Rector, and returned along the Valley to Tewkesbury. Some 

 little time after they had sat down to dinner the missing and much 

 missed portion of the party came in, having lost much time in 

 hunting for the first detachment. After many regrets had been 

 expressed, and much consultation had taken place as to how such 

 eontre temps might be avoided for the future, no better means could 

 bo suggested than that members should answer the Secretary's letters, 

 and endeavour to reach the place of meeting at the time fixed. 



On Wednesday, July 29, a large party of our Club, and a far 

 larger party of Ladies and strangers, met at Gloucester, wi.h the 



