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the quince; and the third from penc, a contraction of penicillus, a sort of sponge 
mentioned by Pliny as used to relieve the tumours of the eyes. 
Mr. FLAVELL Epmunps, at the request of the President, expressed the 
obligations of the members to Mr. Bathurst for the admirable address which he 
had given them, and for the pains he had taken to identify and explain the various 
parts of those most interesting remains. 
Mr. Batuurst acknowledged the compliment; and after rambling about 
the park and its antiquities for a short space further, a small party of members 
made an excursion to the Scowles, the vestiges of the old Roman mines and iron- 
works which bear the same name, near Coleford and Bream. A writer on Dean 
Forest regards ‘ Scowles’ as a corruption of the British word Crowl-leaves, but it 
is better with Thomas Wright to give it up, unless it have any connection with 
the verb to ‘‘ scowl,” in its sense of ‘‘ looking red and hot.” 
After the proceedings on the camp, the party descended the hill, feasting 
their eyes upon the beauties of the forest dells, the hanging woods, and the silvery 
rills which wind through the shades, examining the grand old patriarchal 
trees, and quitting these delights only for the grand views of the broad Severn 
and the distant hills lighted up with the golden radiance of summer eve. As they 
took leave of their kind host, and left Lydney on their return to Hereford, they 
unanimously declared that they had spent an exceedingly pleasant and instructive 
day. 
We noticed present—Rev. James Davies, President; Dr. T, A. Chapman, 
Vice-president ; Rev. Sir G. H. Cornewall. Bart., Hon. Sec.; Mr. Edwin Lees, 
President of Malvern Club; Mr. Flavell Edmunds, F.R.H.S.; Rev. W. H. 
Bathurst, Lydney Park; Sir James Campbell, Bart.; Mr. Charles Bathurst and 
Mrs. Bathurst ; Colonel Byrde; Rev. H. Cooper Key; Mr. Richard Hereford ; 
Rey. Robert Hereford ; Mr. Henry Greenham; Mrs. Willesford ; Rey. E. Evans, 
Lydney ; Rev. J. J. Trollope, Lydney ; Rev. J. F. Gosling, Bream ; Archdeacon 
Ormerod, Sedgeley Park; Mr. F. Adams; Mr. C. H. Moore; Mr. H. G. 
Apperley; Mrs. Jones, Nass; Rev. A. D. Pringle, Blakeney, Newnham ; Lieut. 
Symonds; Mr. William Symonds; Mr. R. B, Davies; Mr. Arthur Thompson, 
Treasurer and Assistant Secretary. 
