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aolbop^ ^atnraltsts' JFidD Club. 



Third Field Meeting, Tuesday, August 14TH, 1855. 



LUDLOW. 



This Society held its Third Field Meeting for this season on T uesday, August 

 14th, at Ludlow. The day being brilliantly fine, there was a good attendance of 

 members, and a very pleasant day was spent. 



The Hereford members left this city by train at 7 a.m., and reached Ludlow 

 at 8-15. On arriving at the station, they were met by a brother member, Mr. H. 

 Salwey, of that town, who had hospitably invited the party to breakfast at the 

 Cliff, where a number of the members of the Ludlow Natural History Society 

 had already assembled. After having partaken of a sumptuous meal, the mem- 

 bers proceeded to transact the business of the Club. The election of five new 

 members (who had previously been proposed) was postponed in consequence of 

 the list being full, and notice was given that it would be proposed at the next 

 Annual Meeting to extend the number of members from 50 to 60. It was also 

 notified that on the same occasion a plan would be submitted for forming and 

 arranging a collection of Natural History specimens to be confined to those of 

 this county. 



Business having been transacted, the party, numbering exactly 40, started 

 in three omnibuses and an open carriage (supplied by Mr. Prothero of the Feathers 

 Hotel), and among them we noticed several ladies, who accompanied the party 

 in their scramble across the hiUs, and who were much interested in the day's 

 proceedings. Sir Charles LyeU, to whose labours geologists are so much indebted, 

 accompsinied by Lady LyeU, honoured the club with their presence. 



The route taken was by Bitterley and Bedlam, towards the lofty Titterstone 

 Clee HiU, whose basaltic peak forms so conspicuous a feature of the noble land- 

 scape around Ludlow. The view from the " Giant's Chaii," to which the party 

 ascended, was magnificent. Although there was a slight haziness in the sky, a 

 vast range of country, unequalled in interest to the geologist, and unsurpassed 

 in natural beauty, presented itself to the admiring eyes of the visitors. The 

 massive Old Red mountains of Radnor Forest, the Hattersd, Scj-rrid-fawi, and 

 the range of Graig, Gjirway, Saddlebow, and Aconbury ; the lofty hills which 

 fringe — if we may so write — the Siliurian islet of Woolhope ; the noble igneous 

 range of Malvern and Abberley ; the broad mass of the Brown Clee, and the 

 picturesque Silurian ridges and peaks of Caer Caradoc and the Stiperstones, 

 successively met the eye as it wcuidered round the wonderfully beautiful landscape. 



Titterstone Clee, as our geological readers are aware, consists of a patch of 

 the Carboniferous system resting upon a huge mass of basalt, part of which, after 

 coming up to the surface, has flowed over the coal, as lava covers the surface of 



