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the fossil remains of immense animals, the mammoth and gigantic stags, were 

 found in Ireland, Cheshire, and the Isle of Man, where but a single herd of them 

 would have eaten up all that the Island could contain. 



He might, he said, go on talking in this general way for an indefinite length 

 of time ; if he had had a party only of geologists to address he should have 

 entered into details on one point only, but he saw around him many who were 

 probably only just beginning to think about Geology. He was glad to see so 

 many young people round, and he therefore contented himself with pointing 

 out a few of the chief great phenomena of the region on which they were standing, 

 in the hope that it might stimulate beginners in the science to pursue it with 

 vigour and earnestness. 



They would now take a look at some of the cuttings in the neighbourhood, 

 especially a quarry in the North Hill, where they would see specimens of the 

 very varied mineralogy of the hills. Some people called them granite, others 

 porphyry, others greenstone, and others, with more propriety, syenitic ; but 

 amongst them were forms of all those older rocks ; some specimens being found 

 indeed even of gneiss, the oldest rock in the world ; proving once more that the 

 mere mineralogical character of a rock could not determine its relative age. 

 The learned lecturer concluded amid loud applause. 



Mr. Edwin Lees, F.L.S., then addressed to the company an interesting 

 lecture on the Botany of the district, confining himself in his remarks, however, 

 pretty much to pointing out the connection between geological and botanical 

 studies, and to the assistance deriveable to the former from the latter. He 

 entered into an examination of the fossil flora of the district, but said he would 

 reserve aU remarks upon the actually existing floweis till they met with them 

 in their excursion. 



A select party forthwith plunged, under Mr. Lees' guidance, into the woods 

 and thickets at the bottom of the west side of the hills, in search of botanical 

 rarities, but we believe they were not fortunate enough to meet with many very 

 great novelties. 



The Geological party, with Sir R. Murchison, Sir C. LyeU, Rev. W. S. Symonds, 

 and others, descended the bill, and first visited the section where Miss Phillips, 

 the sister of the celebrated professor, first discovered the Caradoc Conglomerate. 

 Sir Roderic here called attention to a remarkable reversal of the strata, the 

 lower beds actually overlying the upper, as a consequence of some violent volcanic 

 action. The party then proceeded to a dingle near the lodge of the Rev. J. S. 

 Cocks, at Mathon, where the same inversion was well seen. Some of the party 

 proceeded with the Rev. W. S. Symonds round the end hill, examining various 

 objects of interest on their way, especially a large quarry at North Malvern, 

 where the New Red Sandstone touches upon the Malvern syenite. 



The tunnel of the proposed line of the Worcester and Hereford railway 

 could not be explored, as the works are now closed. 



