Ths next meeting was that at Symonds Tat ; at which Dr. Wright, of 

 Cheltenham, gave the members an able address on the Geological Features of the 

 Landscape, and afterwards detailed some discoveries he had made with reference 

 to the Coral beds of the Oolite. Then followed an antiquarian paper by the 

 Rev. Thomas Phillipps on the Rryal Forest of Haywood. Dr. Chapman, also, 

 in addition to several valuable papers on Beetles, which he has presented to the 

 Club in the course of the year, read a very interesting paper upon the " Columnar 

 Structure found in Ground Ice," or Ice on the surface of the ground, and he de- 

 tailed several very interesting features which had hitherto been unnoticed. It is 

 to be hoped that he will continue his observations on this subjeet in future win- 

 ters, and extend them to the kindred subjects of "Prismatic Ic ," which is one 

 of great interest likewise, and of " River Ground Ice," which has been a vexed 

 question for s? many years, and still remains a phenomenon but very imper- 

 fectly accounted for. Mr. Southall also presented to the Club an elaborate and 

 most useful paper for reference on the subject of meteorology, which will con- 

 siderably add to the value of our volume of Transact.ons this year. la this 

 paper we find tables showing the years of extreme heat, great drought, extreme 

 cold, extraordinary rainfalls and floods, from the earliest authentic records of 

 such events down to the present day. 



At the meeting at Llangorse, besides Mr. Lloyd's piper on the' fine view 

 from the AUt : and Dr. Chapman's on the Habits of Platypus cylindrus ; you 

 heard a valuable paper by Mr. Henry Dumbleton on the Is'and in the Lake, 

 and its probably artificial origin in very early times. The subject is extremely 

 interesting, and a fine field lies open here for further exploration on the part of 

 our members, one in which I think their labour would be amply rewarded. 



On August 19ch the meeting of the Woolhope and Caiadoc Clubs took 

 place on the Longmynd Hills. I myself was in the Isle of Skye at the time, and 

 I observed the date of your meeting noted down in my pocket-book for that very 

 morning, as I was starting on the most interesting expedition I made in Scotland, 

 viz., to the Cuchullin Hills, where, in addition to the most sublime and romantic 

 scenery to be found in Great Britain, there are also the most marvellously perfect 

 remains of the ancient glacial period visible in the existing moraines and ice 

 markings that are tj be found perhaps anywhere in the world. Those of our 

 members who may have visited that glorious scene will bear me out in what I say, 

 that to see that sight would be well worth the journey of 500 miles, even if it 

 had to be performed on foot. 



The papers read at the Longmynd meeting were the following : a masterly 

 one by the Rev. J. de La Touche on "The Geology of the longmynd Hills;" 

 an interesting paper by the Rev. Thomas "Woodhouse on "The Beech Trees of 

 Herefordshire;" one by Dr. Chapman, on that singular wasp parasite the 

 Rhip'phorus paradoxus, whose life history his careful observations have done so 

 much to unravel ; and also a valuable paper on " The More Rare Plants of the 

 Longmynds," by Dr. Griffiths, the Honorary Secretary of the Worcester 

 Naturalists' Field Club. 



