lleport of the proceedings at the Fir at Meeting for 1847 of the 

 Cotteswolds Naturalists' Club. — From the Wilts and Gloucestershire 

 Standard. 



The first meeting of the season was held last Tuesday (April 13th) 

 in our town. After breakfasting at the Earn Inn the Members of 

 the Club visited the Roman pavement at the Barton, and the 

 Royal Agricultural College, where numerous workmen are busily 

 employed on the chapel, theatre, and farm buildings. The unfavour- 

 able state of the weather rendered it necessary to limit the excursion 

 to the railway cuttings in Hailey Wood, instead of proceeding to 

 Sapperton. The woods are now decorated with a profusion of blue 

 scentless violets (Viola hirla, Lin.), primroses, and wood anemones, 

 but many of the more interesting of our native plants, such as the 

 parasitical tooth-wort (Lathrma squamaria, Lin.), are a month later 

 in their flowering than last year. To the botanist who looks after 

 the more minute productions of Nature, a profusion of mosses are 

 spread over the stone walls in various stages of fructification. After 

 their walk the club returned to an excellent dinner at the Ram Inn. 

 Amongst the company present were Dr. Daubeny, of Oxford, in 

 the chair ; the Rev. W. P. Powell, the Rev. J. M. Prower, the Rev. 

 — Mason, Rev. — Daubeny of Eastington, jun., D. Bowly, Esq., 

 E. Bowly, Esq., Sir Thomas Tancred, Mr. Gyde, of Painswick, 

 Thomas Warner, Esq., C. Pooley, Esq., S. Lediard, Esq., Professor 

 Woodward, R.A.C.. &c, &c. 



After dinner Dr. Daubeny read a letter from a gentleman at the 

 Cape, by which it appeared that the potato disease might be 

 expected ultimately to wear out, by analogy with what had there 

 occurred to the sweet chesnut. 



Mr. Woodward called attention to a report in the Morning 

 Chronicle of a meeting of the Botanical Society of London, from which 

 it appeared that every scientific man, in or out of England, repudiated 

 the speculation of Mr. Smee, that the disease was caused by, or in 

 any way connected with, the turnip plantlouse (Aphis Rapa, Curtis). 



Mr. Charles Pooley next read a letter from a friend at Smyrna, 

 on the state of agriculture in that part of Asia Minor. Possessing 

 a wide extent of fertile alluvial soil, and a delightful climate, in 

 which the olive and vine, and most of the cereals — wheat, barley, 

 rye, oats, and maize, may be successfully cultivated, the mode of 

 farming is slovenly, and extremely primitive in its character. 

 Draining, though requisite, is unknown j manure only used for the 



