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On May 26th, a meeting did take place at Chipping Campden, 

 but, alas, it could hardly be called a meeting of our Club, inas- 

 much as our only members who met there were our worthy 

 Secretary and the Rev. P. B. Brodie, who came less as a member 

 of the Cotteswold, than as President of the Warwickshire Club, 

 who had agreed to meet there on that day. Never mind. While 

 we can boast to have sent out so notable a scion from our Club to 

 found another Club elsewhere though we may regret that we 

 meet him less often than heretofore we count him anything but 

 lost. 



It appears that the party visited first the Church, and then the 

 mounds left from the working of Mickleton tunnel, where a large 

 collection of fossils were found indeed most of those described 

 in Mr. Gavey's work with the addition of a fine specimen of the 

 Hippopodium ponderosum (whose existence was questioned by 

 Mr. Gavey), found by the Secretary of our Club, and presented 

 by him to the Natural History Society of Warwick. 



On June 23rd, a meeting had been fixed for Winchcombe. A 

 small party met at the Bam, at Cheltenham, to breakfast, and 

 proceeded in flys to the Eising Sun, the summit of the hill on the 

 Winchcombe road. Here they separated : one section proceeding 

 under charge of the Secretary, exploring the earth, found speci- 

 mens of Mytilus jurensis* Ter. Phillipsii, and T. Buckmani, 

 amongst other shells of the inferior oolite ; while another section, 

 under the charge of W. Y. Guise, Esq. searching the air, appear 

 for some time to have caught no species except certain Diptera 

 a race of diminutive Tartars, the catching of whom is neither pro- 

 fitable nor pleasant. After a time, however, on the eastern slope 

 towards Postlip, Mr. Guise had the satisfaction of taking the 

 somewhat rare and local Procris statices (Green forester), with 

 the Pyrausta purpuralis and punicealis, and found dead in the 

 road (the coroner happily not having sat upon him) a fine speci- 

 men of the Sphinx ligustri, or Privet Hawk moth. After dinner, 

 a paper was read by Mr. Guise, " On some rare Bats discovered 

 in the county," the specimens illustrative of which were kindly 

 presented by him to the Royal Agricultural College. 



In July, a meeting, honoured by the presence of a large number 

 of ladies, again took place at Cirencester, and again formed two 

 sections. The one, under the charge of the Secretary, explored 

 Oakley Wood, where they found specimens of Epipactis grandi- 

 flora, E. latifolia, Convallaria majalis in fruit (this locality for the 

 Sweet Lily of the Valley was discovered by Miss Hay garth), and 

 other plants ; while others of the Club, under the direction of 

 Mr. Pooley and Mr. Jones, went first to a cornbrash quarry at 

 Siddington, where a very satisfactory series of fossils of that bed 



* Dr. Wright maintains that he knows no such species as the Mytilus jurensis, 

 but the Ammonite Jurensis does not exist in the Inferior oolite. 



