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sion failed to comply with his very reasonable request, and that 

 the club do consider in the meantime, whether the offenders shall 

 be deemed guilty of high treason to our King of Clubs ; and (we 

 will omit two of the penalties — but) be quartered elsewhere ; or, 

 whether they should be subjected to club law and fusticular punish- 

 ment; or, whether they should be debarred their allowance of 

 whiskey for the future — unless indeed they compound for their 

 transgression, by bringing a bottle of the pure nectar of the 

 mountains to a subsequent meeting.'* 



Gentlemen, I leave this important subject to your consideration. 

 After dinner at various tables, we crowded together at one board, 

 where, the minutes of the former meeting having been read — Mr. 

 Pooley exhibited the foot print of a Saurian reptile, found in the 

 Stonesfield slate, at Farmington, near Northleach ; together with 

 a photograph or calotype which represented it admirably. A 

 letter was also read from Professor Owen, who promises to examine 

 the specimen more fully, and describe it in a forthcoming work. 

 This valuable specimen belongs to Robert Brown, Esq., of Barton 

 Bury, near Cirencester. 



Mr. Buckman then described and exhibited, a very curious 

 variety of the Lamium album, or white dead nettle — the peculi- 

 arity of which was — that the lateral teeth in its flowers were all 

 changed or developed into side lobes. This is interesting as shew- 

 ing that these teeth, which have been made a generic character by 

 botanists, ought not to be so considered, being only undeveloped 

 lobes, like those we see in many other genera of the labiate flowers. 

 Mr. Buckman states that he has, for some years, watched the 

 plants from which these flowers were taken, and that they always 

 produce flowers of the same kind. Dried specimens also of that 

 rare plant — the Thlaspi perfoliatum — were distributed to many of 

 the members by Mr. Buckman ; one of whose pupils had found it 

 growing near Sapperton. Its great interest, in addition to its 

 rarity being, that it has never been found on any other formation 

 than that of the great oolite. 



Dr. Wright then gave us a theory of the oolite marl, which 

 occurs above the freestone beds of tne inferior oolite, which he 

 designated as a coral reef. This led to an animated discussion 

 between Professor Buckman and himself, and I find it on record 

 that the President observed, that as when thieves fall out, honest 

 men came by their rights ; so, when men of high talent dispute a 

 point, the ignorant at least may pick up many scraps of informa- 

 tion ; and few are better able to judge of the feelings of this latter 

 class than the President. 



On the 24th of June, absence from the County prevented my 

 attendance at the meeting of the Club. I must, therefore, give 

 you the animated account of the proceedings kindly afforded by 

 the notes of the Secretary. 



" Our excursion was to be directed towards the quarries near 

 Sevenhampton, where the Stonesfield slate has been worked. On 

 reaching the hill above Seaford, in sight of Mr. Beale Browne's 



