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we cannot long delay it. Secondly. Our club is fuU. We have no loss to lament 

 — we have gained much. To our list of Honorary Members we have added Sir 

 Charles LyeU, who may well be called a Working Member, for none, as I believe, 

 of those who have had the pleasure of meeting him on two occasions within the 

 year can have forgotten the zeal which characterized him in the pursuit of his 

 favourite science, nor the frankness and freedom with which he imparted to the 

 younger disciples in the same school the knowledge which he possessed. May 

 our list of ordinary Members, to which we have had the good fortune to add 

 several valuable men, furnish us with as ardent working men as Sir Charles Lyell. 

 We shall then, year by year, with increased ardour, go forth in the spirit of the 

 poet, to 



" Read nature — nature is a friend to truth, 

 " Nature is Christian — preaches to mankind, 

 " And bids dead matter aid us in our creed." 



Our meetings during the year have been as usual, three — at Medvern, Eardis- 

 ley, and Ludlow. The first was an aggregate one of the Malvern. Cotswold, 

 Warwick, and Woolhope Clubs, held there by the invitation of the Malvern Club, 

 and was attended by Mr. Horner, who forty-five years before had wTitten on the 

 Mineralogy of the Malvern Range, Sir Roderick Murchison, Sir C. LyeU, and Mr. 

 Brodie, of our Honorary Jlembers, and a large number of good and true naturalists. 

 The day was nearly all that could be wished, and will be long remembered by me, 

 who stood on the summit of the Worcestershire Beacon for the first time in my 

 life, and listened to Sir R. Murchison, as he directed our attention to the wonders 

 that lay at our feet on the one side and the other of that marvellous range, in the 

 successive formations of lower and upper Silurian, Old Red Sandstone, Carboni- 

 ferous, Xew Red Sandstone, Lias and Oolite, and carried us with him to Russia 

 and Scandinavia, where he himself had marked their equivalents, and to America, 

 where Sir C. Lyell had done the same, and brought forcibly to our minds the 

 words of the Psalmist, " O Lord, how manifold are Thy works, in wisdom hast 

 Thou made them all. The earth is full of Thy riches." It is not for me to attempt 

 to foUow him through his lecture, nor to do much more than notice the eloquent 

 parallel drawn by Mr. Lees, who succeeded him, between Geology and its sister 

 (younger indeed, but perhaps more beautiful) Botany, and shewed how a kind 

 providence has gradually clothed the rugged rock with verdure and with beauty, 

 and at the same time put the indelible mark of change upon it all. The Geological 

 division afterwards made their way to the quarry with which the name of Miss 

 Phillips is connected, and found most interesting specimens of the Caradoc 

 conglomerate, showing its junction with the igneous rock, and had their attention 

 drawn to the great natural phenomenon of the overturning of the strata, by 

 which the younger have taken the place of the older formation, and after a 

 delightful ramble round the North Hill, noticing various objects of interest, par- 

 ticularly a large quarry at North Malvern, where the New Red touches on the 

 syenite, returned to the Malvern Museum, where they met their botanical triends, 

 who, under the direction of Mr. Lees, had examined the great bog, and a most 

 interesting line of country, and had gathered many plants, but nothing very rare. 

 After dinner, Professor Buckman read a paper on the Terebratulae of the Oolite 



