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visitor to this spot, whether of a geological or poetical turn of mind (though he 

 must be careful how he turns his body), will be charmed with the prospect before 

 him ; the coloured woods, the verdant dales, and boldly rising hills, the distant 

 views stretching on beyond the curvatures of the sparkling Wye to the Black 

 Mountains, bounding the horizon, may not readily be forgotten when once they 

 have been seen. On the present occasion, however, the break of sunshine had 

 unfortunately disappeared, and a tantalising broodiDg mist, 



Like sorrow's veil on beauty's brow, 

 as Moore writes of a like " Mist o'er blooming bowers," about famed Killarney, 

 now hid the distant prospect, and even dimmed the celebrated Haugh "tt ood, 

 the dome from which the other rocks of the Woolhope Valley are thrown off 

 subordinately. . 



The company were here assembled by the sound of the whistle, and having 

 accommodated themselves to the inequalities of the ground , at the request of 

 Dr Bull the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., gave a very interesting extem- 

 pore lecture on the geological features of the Woolhope Valley before them, 

 comparing the remarkable features of this district with the more extended one 

 of the Wealden, in Sussex. 



In the course of this address Mr. Brodie mentioned that when working in 

 the Woolhope district this spring, with his own Field Club, he had been so for- 

 tunate as to discover a small and very perfect specimen of Eurypterus, which he 

 had sent for examination to Mr. Henry Woodward, of the British Museum. He 

 had just had a letter from Mr. Woodward, in which he stated that it was a new 

 species and that he had named it the Eurypterus Brodiei, in honour of the 

 finder It was found at the Perton quarry, near Stoke Edith, and as it came 

 so strictly within the province of the Woolhope Club, Mr. Brodie kindly offered 

 it for iUustration in the volume of Transactions, an offer which was very gladly 



accepted. 



The thanks of the meeting having been given to Mr. Brodie, the Eev. F. 

 Merewether, of Woolhope, then read a paper "On the Drift in the Neigh- 

 bourhood of WboLHOPB." This paper, which was founded altogether on 

 original observations, will be published at length. The chief facts of the paper 

 were confirmed by Mr. Brodie, and some little discussion arose upon it, in which 

 W. J. Neville, Esq., and the Rev. J. D. La Touche took pait. 



The order was now given to search for Funguses, but although the district 

 was most favourable for them, beyond the large tufts of the ubiquitous Ag. raeU 

 leus and Ag. fascicular!* but little was found. Many small specimens of the 

 orange Chantarelle, Cantliarellus aurantiacus, were gathered ; Mr. Houghton 

 found the Fir-cone Hydnum, Hydnum auriscalpium, always so curious and 

 interesting ; Mr. Elmes Y. Steele got the graceful green agaric with its silky 

 veil and stem, Ag. ctruginosus ; several of the Mycena tribe were also gathered, 

 as Ag. polygrammus, Ag. alcalinus, with one or two near allies, Ag. epipterygius 

 amongst them. These are sufficient to show how many more there would have 

 been under more favourable circumstances. The drought was too prevalent, and 



