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5Kooll]0pi^ liaturalists' Jfkltt (Klub. 



First Field RIeeting, Thuusday, June 3ud, 1858. 



LEDBURY. 



The First Meeting of the season ot this Club took place at Ledbury on 

 Thursday, June 3rd, when the members were joined by members of the Malvern, 

 Worcestershire, and Cotteswold Clubs. 



The following Members were present : — Woolhope Club — Dr. Bevan, 

 President, Mr. R. M. Lingwood, Mr. R. Lightbody, Dr. Steele, Rev. J. H. Barker, 

 Messrs. T. Curley, A. Thompson, P. Ballard, G. Cocking, P. Baylis, &c. ; Malvern 

 Club — Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S., President, Rev. Reginald Hill, Rev. C. Hay- 

 wood, Mr. John Jones, and Rev. J. Kent, &c. ; Worcestershire Club — Edwin 

 Lees, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President; Messrs. J. S. Walker, Edward Gillam, R. 

 Smith, Rev. W. Thorne, Mr. Henry C. Vernon, Mr. Herbert Budd, Captain 

 Pointing, cS:c. 



The whole of the Clubs and their friends, numbering 60 or 70, assembled 

 on the summit of Braidlow Hill, near Ledbury, where the Rev. W. S. Symonds 

 delivered a very able and instructive lecture on the Geological formation of the 

 Malvern range of hills, explaining the upheaval and contortion of the strata. 

 He dwelt with great feeling on the loss to science of the late lamented Hugh 

 Strickland, who some three or four years ago, on a similar occasion, delivered 

 a lecture on Ragged Stone Hill. 



The lecturer recommended that the day's ramble should begin by visiting 

 a fish-bed lately discovered by two working men, who devote their leisure hours 

 to the pursuits of geology. The descent was made to the exposure in a vertical 

 escarpment of Ludlow Rocks at Dog Hill, and proceeding thence to the examina- 

 tion of a supposed bone-bed on Wall Hills, the threatening aspect of the weather 

 and the rain commencing to fall induced the party to return to the Feathers Inn, 

 where Dr. Bevan Isctured on fossils lately discovered by him in the Coal, which 

 are unique, consisting of Ammonites and other shells, which have yet to be named. 

 He treated of a deposit of Marine Shells found by him in the Coal Measures near 

 Beaufort, in the South Wales Coal basin. 



Mr. Jones, of Gloucester, exhibited a new instrument called a Gyroscope, 

 which demonstrates the fixity of the earth's axis in the position it was placed in 

 when the earth began to revolve. We may refer to a description of this instru- 

 ment at some future time. 



Mr. Lees read a paper on " The Colouring given to Nature by Cryptogamic 

 Vegetation," which caused a good deal of discussion. His theory of the non- 



