times and places among the chrystalline rocks of the hilla, had caused numerous variations 

 of mineralogical character throughout the chain. Mr. E. Lees said that near this spot was 

 a greater amount of sulphate of Barytes than at any other part of the hills ; looking about 

 among the broken-up debris here, as directed by him, some fine crystallizations were 

 found. Mr. Hill led a few of the party, curious in mechanical operations, to see a stone- 

 breaking machine in work at a quarry. We then hastened on to the Sienitic Bosses in 

 Cowleigh Park, and mounted those ancient isolated rocks, which are an extension of the Mal- 

 vern Chain in this direction. From this point a picturesque scenerj-is unfolded, and, under 

 a more propitious sky, its varied beauties would have been more fully appreciated than they 

 could be under the leaden clouds which utterly concealed from view the prominent 

 features of the landscape. We next proceeded to Whitman's Hill, where, in an extensive 

 quarry, a fine section of Wenlock limestone, the beds of which dip westward, is exposed. 

 None but common fossils were found, but Mr. Symonds gave us in few but choice terms 

 an outline of the Geologj' of the surrounding countrj', more particularly tracing the suc- 

 cession of formations in a south-westerly direction from this spot, near the northern end 

 of the Malvern Range, to the edge of the South Wales coalfield, pointing out the 

 physical structiu-e of the intervening district, Aj-mestrey rock, Ludlow shales, old red 

 sandstone, Carboniferous limestone, and mill-stone grit, but, alas ! the land marks were 

 visible to the mental eye only. Thanks were given to Mr. Symonds for his able address, at 

 the close of which we were led off under the guidance of Mr. Hill, who ably piloted ua 

 through brushwood and bramble, through briar and mud, to the Croft Limestone Quairies. 

 These have been worked out, and after glancing at the varied scenery presented by the 

 undulations of the surface, occasioned by the succession of Silurian ridges, and gathering 

 some of the less common plants of the month, amongst which I may nume A nthyllis 

 vulneraria, Polygala vulgaris, Rosa villosa, Otiobrychig sativa, Babenaria hifolia. 

 Orchis pyramidis, and Bromus cerectus, we reached the base of the Worcestershire 

 Beacon. Here, at the proper spot, a search in vain was made for Miss Phillips's Con- 

 glomerate — so called from having been first discovered bj' the sister of the celebrated 

 Professor Phillips, of Oxford, and interesting as being a compounded mass of Llandovery 

 rocks and Sienite, the shells of the Llandovery beds being mixed up with quartz and 

 felspar, thus proving by their intimate combination without trace of fusion, that when the 

 last uplift of the Malvern Chain took place, the crystalline rocks were cold and con- 

 solidated. 



We regained our carriages and drove to the Wych, where, again dismounting, some 

 of us descended the steep declivity towards Colwall, passing in our way over an outcrop 

 of the Woolhope limestone, where numerous corals are apparent along the bank, and 

 attainable with very little difiiculty. A short distance below is the " Old Winnings " 

 quarry of Wenlock limestone, now inclosed within the grounds of Mr. Stephen Ballard, a 

 member of the Malvern Club, who has made a path through the quarry, and taken advan- 

 tage of the broken Une of surface, by tastefully ornamenting it with rock plants and 

 trailing shrubs, to create out of waste ground an oasis of beauty ; here, under the 

 guidance of that gentleman, we lingered enjoying the picturesque spot till time waa 

 called. Mr. Ballard's pressing hospitality was irresistible to some of his visitors, who were 

 induced to linger still longer over a feast provided by him, which, not being in the pro- 

 gramme of the day, the Woolhopeans, for the most part obedient to the call of their 

 President, gratefully declined, and re-entering their carriages at the Wych, made their 

 way to the Belle Vue, all attempt at a climb over the Worcestershire Beacon having been 

 rendered hopeless by the murky state of the atmosphere. At the dinner your President 

 was called upon to take the seat of honour in graceful acknowledgment on the part of 



