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oolliopc Jiaturalists' SiclD Club. 



First Field Meeting, Tuesday, June qth, 1863. 



FOREST OF DEAN. 



The First Field Meeting in 1863 was held at Mitcheldean Road Station, on 

 Tuesday, June gth. 



The following is taken from the minutes of the Club : — " After a delightful 

 trip to Lea Bailey Hill, part of the Old Limekilns, to a deep trench in which some 

 of the shales and their bands of fossiliferous stone underlying the Carboniferous 



Limestone are exposed the party proceeded over the hill past 



Mr. Allaway's Mine Pit at Wigpool, where some specimens of iron ore were pro- 

 cured, past the Wilderness through a portion of the Forest, past Woodside to 

 Cinderford. 



" On passing the neighbourhood of one of the numerous Coal-pits, some good 

 specimens of fossil plants were found in the shales. 



" The party returned in a carriage from Cinderford to Ross. 



The election of Vice-Presidents for the year having been omitted at the 

 .Annual Meeting, the following were elected : Dr. G. P. Bevan, Mr. R. Lightbody, 

 Mr. R. ^L Lingwood, and Rev. Charles Smith. 



Various Officers of the Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists' Field Club, of 

 the Severn Valley Naturalists' Field Club, and of the Caradoc Field Club were 

 elected honorary members. 



Si.K candidates were elected members. 



The following is a list of the party : ^Ir. Chandos Wren Hoskyns, President ; 

 Mr. R. M. Lingwood and Rev. Charles Smith, Vice-Presidents ; Members : Mr. 

 T. Curley, C.E., Rev. Arthur Gray, Rev. W. H. Purchas, Mr. Alfred Purchas, 

 Mr. Humphrey Salwey, Rev. Thomas West, and Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer 

 and Assistant Secretary. 



