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the proceedings of our Club, and to report on the best plan to bo 

 adopted for the future. 



I trust we may be fully assured that both of these matters have 

 been fully considered, as the first is a point almost touching the 

 honour of our Club, while the latter touches its private interests. 



The President and Secretary were then re-elected, and the 

 meetings for the ensuing year were fixed. 



A paper was read by Mr. Lycctt, on the Perna Quadrata ; and 

 another on the bones of Beaver, Deer, &c. found in Nails worth 

 valley. And by Professor Buckinan, " A notice of the Oxford 

 Clay, as found near Cirencester." 



After dinner, in the hospitable Hall of the College, an animated 

 discussion on that most interesting of topics which has the great 

 advantage of being an unceasing ground of battle, inasmuch as no 

 two people can ever be brought to take the same view of it viz. 

 the nature and value of species would no doubt have lasted till 

 the crack of doom, had it not been far more agreeably cut short 

 by a summons to tea. 



On May 1st, although we make a general rule not to accept 

 the hospitality of any of our members, further than an occasional 

 and rare invitation to breakfast, yet we made, I may almost say, 

 our one exception, and spent most of the day at Apperly Court, 

 the seat of our kind friend, Henry Strickland, Esq. 



After examining the beautiful specimens illustrative of different 

 branches of natural history, and looking over the exquisite draw- 

 ings of plants, by Miss Strickland, the members proceeded to 

 Deerhurst Church, both to enjoy again the beauties of the Nor- 

 man or in part, as some hold, Saxon architecture ; and also to 

 see the window of stained glass (by O'Connor; which our Club has 

 been allowed to assist in putting up, in commemoration of our 

 sincerely lamented friend and associate, Hugh E. Strickland, Esq. 



Much satisfaction was expressed by the subscribers who were 

 present at the manner in which their wishes had been carried out. 



On returning to Apperley, the Club was entertained at dinner 

 by Henry Strickland, with his usual hospitality; and if some sad 

 thoughts intruded, we at any rate felt thankful to be allowed to 

 meet again the family of one whom we had so loved and regretted. 



June the 12th was appointed for a meeting of the Worcester, 

 Mai vena, Woolhope, and Warwickshire Clubs, with our own, at 

 Malvern. 



Yeomanry duties prevented my attendance, but, as I learn, the 

 geologists, under the distinguished guidance of Sir Roderick Mur- 

 chison, and the botanists under that of Mr. Lees, proceeded to 

 the Warwickshire Beacon, where Sir Roderick delivered a most 

 eloquent lecture on the geological formation of the country 

 around that magnificent spot ; after which Mr. Lees explained the 

 principal features of the botany of his own loved hills. 



