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First Field Meeting, Tuesday, June i2th, 1855. 



WORCESTERSHIRE BEACON. 



On Tuesday (12th June) the members of the Cotteswold (Gloucestershire), 

 Woolhope (Herefordshire), and Malvern Clubs met at noon upon the summit of 

 the Worcestershire Beacon, which had been chosen as the place where Sir Roderic 

 Murchison would deUver a lecture on the Geology of the surroimding country, 

 and Mr. Edwin Lees would also point out its principal features of interest in a 

 botanical point of view. At this general rendezvous there could not have been 

 less than T50 ladies and gentlemen. Amongst the latter were Sir Roderic 

 Murchison, F.R.S., Sir Chas. Lyell, L. Homer, Esq., Rev. T. T. Lewis, Sir Chas. 

 Hastings, M.D., Hon. and Rev. J. S. Cocks, Rev. W. S. Symonds, President of 

 the Malvern Club, Rev. P. T. Brodie, Mr. C. Lingen, Professor J as. Buckman, 

 Dr. Wright, of Cheltenham, Dr. Grindrod, Rev. F. Dyson, Mr. W. Dowdeswell, 

 Rev. J. F. Crouch, President of the Woolhope Club, Mr. P. Marriott, Mr. R. M. 

 Ling\vood, Rev. J. Pearson, Rev. W. L. Isaac, Mr. Edwin Lees, F.L.S., Messrs. 

 Hewett Wheatley, Curtis Hayward, W. Burrow, Secretary of the Malvern Club, 

 Rev. W. Thackwell, Rev. W. Thome, Rev. D. Melville, Rev. — Taylor, Rev. 

 T. Hutchinson, Mr. T. H. Lee Warner, Dr. Rootes, Mr. R. Johnson, Rev. S. P. 

 Denning, Rev. G. Hodson, Captain Guise, Mr. S. Baker, Rev. F. Bayly, Dr. 

 Guillemard, Rev. E. Bradley, Rev. C. Smith, Rev. C. Hill, Rev. W. A. Hill, 

 Rev. A. Kent, Messrs. B. Maund, M. Curtler, M. M. B. Cooper, C. G. H. St. Pat- 

 trick, H. Sewell, W. C. West, R. P. Hill, Shipway, GljTin, Chambers, Fellowes, 

 Smythe, Walker, P. Baylis, A. Thompson, R. Wheatley, H. HiU, J. Burrows, 

 Preedy, &c., &c. 



ADDRESS BY SIR R. MURCHISON. 



Sir R. Murchison commenced his address by remarking that, surrounded as 

 he was then by friends to whom he had himself been greatly indebted for the 

 knowledge of this region, he could not but take this opportunity of acknow- 

 ledging his obligations. Before him stood Mr. Homer, who had e.xplored this 

 part of the country before he (Sir Roderic) set foot in it ; and there was also his 

 intimate friend, Mr. Lewis, of Aymestrey, who had developed the structure of the 

 rocks in his native county long ago, and had been his precursor in laying open the 

 wonders of the system to which he (the lecturer) had afterwards given the name 

 of Silurian. And now having expressed the gratitude under which he laboured 

 to those gentlemen, he would proceed at once to give his hearers a general notion 

 of the geological features of the surrounding country. 



They were at that moment standing on a ridge composed of rocks of an 

 igneous eruptive charcater, formed by fusion, which had come through all the 



