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Second Field Meeting, Tuesday, July /th. 1S63. 



CRAVEN ARMS. 



JoixT Meeting with the "Oswestry and Welshpool" and "Caradoc 



Naturalists' Field Clubs. 



At the Second Field Meeting, on July 7th, 1863, the following attended: 

 Mr. Chandos Wren Hoskyns. President ; .Mr. Robert Lightbody, Mr. R. M. 

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

 George Bentham, President of the Linnean Society, and Captain Guise, President 

 of the Cotteswold Field Club : Members : Messrs. R. W. Banks, Thomas Cam, 

 George Cocking, T. Curley. A. Purchas. Humphrey Salwey, Colonel Colvin, 

 Revs. T. Hutchinson, H. C. Key, J.J. Miller, and Mr. Arthur Thompson, Treasurer 

 and Assistant Secretary. Also the following \isitors : The .Misses Colvin, Mr. 

 Crouch, Master T. Hutchinson. Rev. John Hanbury, and Miss Hodgson. 



The party was joined by the Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Oswestry 

 and Welshpool, also of the Caradoc Field Club, and other members of each Club. 



By permission of Mrs. Stackhouse Acton, Stokesay Castle was \isited, its 

 features being described by Rev. J. D. La Touche. The adjoining Church of 

 Stokesay was also visited. 



The party divided — one party proceeding up the river Onny by Horderley, 

 to trace the Wenlock, Caradoc, Llandovery, and Longmynd formations, limited 

 by the south-west spire of the Longmynds, a walk of ten miles. 



The majority visited a quarry of Lower Ludlow rocks under Stokesay Wood. 

 Ascending the wood to the summit of the hill a rare plant, Astrantia major, was 

 found in three different places, also varieties of ferns. Addresses on the Geology 

 of the neighbourhood were given by Rev. J. D. La Touche, and by Mr. Humphrey 

 Salwey. 



The Aymestry Quarries at View Edge, or Weo Edge, were also visited. 



After dinner at the Craven Arms Hotel, at which seventy-two sat down, 

 addresses were given by the President, by Captain Guise, and by Mr. Thomas 

 Owens. 



The Rev. Thos. O. Rocke read a paper on a Tumulus at Clungunford, ex- 

 hibiting various relics found therein. 



Mr. George Bentham gave a short address on " The Distribution of Plants." 

 Thanks were voted to Rev. E. Jacson for his presentation to the Museum of 

 specimens of Roman Pottery. 



