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Woolbopc Jlaturaltsts' Jftd5 (!Ilub. 



First Field Meeting, Tuesday, June 2nd 1857. 



TARRINGTON. 



Tuesday, June 2nd, being the day appointed for the Joint Meeting of the 

 Woolhope and Malvern Field Clubs at Tarrington, there was a good muster of 

 visitors to that pretty and picturesquely situated village. 



The Hereford party, which started at 8 a.m., filled one of Messrs. Bosleys' 

 stage-coaches, and a second party, which started at 10 a.m., on the arrival of 

 the morning trains, occupied two other carriages. A party of members of the 

 Malvern Club made their appearance at Tarrington soon after the arrival of the 

 first Hereford party ; and other naturalists arrived afterwards from other parts 

 of the county. 



After breakfast, the Woolhope Club held its Meeting, and transacted its 

 ordinary business, the chair being occupied by Mr. C. Lingen, of Hereford, Presi- 

 dent of the Society. 



The members of both Clubs then proceeded to visit the noble residence and 

 gardens of Stoke Edith, which had been kindly thrown open to their inspection 

 by the directions of the Right Hon. the Lady EmUy Foley, communicated through 

 her Ladyship's agent, Mr. C. A. Mason. Mr. Robertson, the head of her Lady- 

 ship's horticultural establishment, received the visitors, and conducted them 

 through the gardens. The new Itzilian garden, now in course of la>iug out at the 

 southern front of the house, excited some attention. 



THE DORMINGTON LANDSLIP. 



The naturalists then proceeded to visit that singular and most instructive 

 spot, the landslip near Dormington, a conspicuous object from the Ledbury and 

 Hereford road, but one which has probably been looked upon by most tourists 

 as merely what it seems to be — a large quarry. Had they visited the spot, they 

 would have come away with very different feelings, however little they might 

 have known of the geology of the district. The impression made by a first view 

 upon an intelligent spectator is not to be soon forgotten. A whole field of several 

 acres in extent, which has precipitated itself down a steep descent, and been 

 broken to fragments in the fall — fragments of every conceivable form, and of all 

 sizes from that of a footstool up to that of a good sized house ; some of them bare 

 and weather-beaten masses of crumbling rock, others green islands of grass, wild 

 flowers, and trees — is a sight confessedly not to be seen often, nor to be soon 

 forgotten when seen. To the geologist, the spot is one of the deepest interest. 



