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toast given at the dinners of the Club, but one which loyal Woolhopians never 
omitted. The toast having been drunk, the President expressed the great gratifica- 
tion which he felt in seeing so large a gathering of members and visitors, and in 
congratulating them on the very pleasant day which they had spent. They all 
owed a debt of gratitute to Mr. Symonds not only for his excellent lecture, but 
also for his explanation of the most interesting exhibition of fossil remains with 
which it had been illustrated (applause). 
Mr. Symonps, in acknowledgment, expressed the pleasure he felt in being 
able to illustrate the great truths of geology, and to bring before them evidences 
of the vast changes which had taken place in this district. He felt that the study 
of the rocks enlarged the mind, and was worthy of man’s intellectual powers. 
Above all, he felt that it was beneficial to man as a reasonable creature that he 
should thus learn to understand somewhat of the power and wisdom of the great 
Creator (hear, hear). 
The CHarirMAN called upon Mr, Flavell Edmunds, as one of the Editorial 
Committee, to make a Report. 
Mr. Epmunps said that he had hoped to escape at that late hour, but that 
he observed a twinkle in the President’s eye, which, if not ‘* ominous,” was at 
least intelligible ; and it said to him plainly enough, ‘‘ obey and speak.” He had, 
however, little to report from the Editorial Committee: the printing of the 
Transactions had been delayed by accidental circumstances, but was now going on. 
The fourth sheet was nearly ready ; and he had no doubt that the book would be 
completed by the time of the Fungus Foray. For the rest, he would just say 
that he had been greatly interested and delighted with the eloquent lecture of 
Mr. Symonds, and with the whole proceedings of the day. This meeting at Whit- 
church put him in mind of the first time when the Club assembled there, just 22 
years ago. Mr. Symonds would no doubt remember the pleasant little party and 
their ramble into the adjacent Forest of Dean, and Symond’s Yat. investigating 
the Conglomerate, the Millstone Grit, and the Coal Measures, and gazing with 
new interest upon the grand landscape, as their late esteemed chiefs, Sir Roderick 
Murchison and the Rev. T. T. Lewis, explained the broad facts of the history of 
the strata around them. In the intervening time, their revered friends Sir 
Roderick and Mr. Lewis had been removed by death; their esteemed founder, 
Mr. Scobie, had also been snatched away, all too early for the useful career on 
which he had entered ; and few indeed of the party which met in 1852 were now 
left. A fresh generation, he might almost say, had sprung up in the Club; and 
he was glad to be able to congratulate Mr. Symonds on the fact that the new 
generation mustered in so much greater number than the old, although they could 
not be said to show a greater love for the grand science upon which Mr. Symonds 
had so often spoken to them. For bis own part he was delighted to see that 
gathering, because he took it as a proof that the truths that day expounded were 
making theirway. He felt that the discoveries of geology were especially valuable 
in their bearing on the Christian verity. He held that man’s conceptions of the 
greatness of the Christian scheme were raised by the evidence that the creation 
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