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Third Field Meeting, Friday, qth August, i86i. 



ABERGAVENNY, SCYRRYD FAWR. 



The third and last meeting for the season of the VVoolhope Naturalists' 

 Field Club was held at Abergavenny on Friday, August gth, when the following 

 gentlemen were present : — Mr. Robert Lightbody, President ; George Cocking 

 and Mr. Elmes Y. Steele, Vice-Presidents ; Chandos Wren Hoskyns, Esq., 

 President of the Warwickshire Club ; Edwin Lees, Esq., Vice-President of the 

 Malvern and Worcestershire Clubs ; and the following members of the Woolhope 

 Club : — Dr. Sevan, Rev. J. F. Crouch, Hon. Sec, Col. Colvin, Mr. T. Curley, 

 C.E., Rev. H. T. Hill, Mr. T. Cam, Dr. Gilliland, Mr. J. E. Smith, Rev. Charles 

 Smith, Dr. Steele, Rev. T. Woodhouse, and Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer 

 and Assistant Secretary. Visitors . — Rev. T. H. Bird, Messrs. Colvin, Cunning- 

 ham, Crouch, Rev. W. D. Duncombe, Messrs. Davies, John Kent and Son, A. 

 Marston, Nichol, Rev. — Pigott, Mr. Martyn Roberts, Dr. Thom, and Mr. W. 

 H. West. Rev. Thomas King was elected a member. 



Sir Charles Hastings, the President of the Worcestershire Natural History 

 Society, was (on the proposition of Mr. Arthur Thompson, seconded by the Rev. 

 Chas. Smith ) elected an honorary member. 



A notice was read from Sir Charles Hastings inviting the members of the 

 Club to attend the Annual Meeting of the Worcestershire Society at Worcester 

 on the 17th of September. A similar invitation had been sent to the other 

 Field Clubs. 



Dr. M'Cullough, Superintendent of the United Counties Lunatic Asylum, 

 had courteously invited the party to breakfast, smd most hospitably and bounti- 

 fully had he provided for his guests. The Naturalists were first conducted by 

 Dr. M'Cullough to a quarry in the grounds of the Asylum, where, in the Corn- 

 stone, specimens of some of the characteristic fishes of the Old Red Sandstone 

 had been obtained ; and, after some hammering here, though with no remarkable 

 results, the route was taken direct for the Scyrryd-fawr, or Great Scyrryd Hill. 

 In progressing to this mountain, a deep watery ravine was passed, where the 

 Scolopendrium vulgare, and several species of Lasircea flourished exceedingly in 

 the deep gloom. Indeed, the botanical interest of the day centered in the ferns ; 

 for the barren steeps of the Sc^Tryd produced scarcely anything else but a dense 

 growth of the common brake, Pteris aqilina and masses of the Ulex gallii, which, 

 however, made a pretty show with their golden flowers. The day was dubious 



