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explained by demanding that they be produced more or less off-hand by some 
violent agency, of whose existence there is next to no evidence ; whilst more or 
less completely overlooking these more poweful, if less swift, forces of nature 
which we see constantly in action ; and especially to call attention to the evidence 
we have that much of the sculpturing of the Woolhope Valley, with not a little 
denudation, has been done by the river Wye, during and since the last glacial 
period. If we bear in mind Mr. Croll’s hypothesis—I had almost said demonstra- 
tion—that the glacial period was really a succession of alternations of glacial cold 
and perpetual spring, accompanied by variations in the sea-level, we can under- 
stand that denudation during that period progressed with much greater rapidity 
than at present. 
The second field meeting of the year took place on June 27th, when 
Llanthony Abbey was visited ; the weather was too propitious, the thermometer 
indicating 80deg. in the shade. Thus ladies, for this was the ladies’ day, and 
members whose tastes were archeological, and who sought the shelter of the 
ruined abbey, in preference to more extended researches, no doubt found its 
cool shades more pleasant than the intense heat of the sun in the narrow valley of 
the Honddu. I only heard of one member of the Club who succeeded in reaching 
the travertine deposit, with its botanical treasures, which was marked as the limit 
of the day’s excursion, but not a few visited the ancient yew trees in the churchyard 
of Capel-y-ffin, and several c‘srical members made some praiseworthy, but rather 
unsuccessful efforts, to study the natural history of their cowled brethren in the 
neighbouring monastery. When the party were again gathered at the Abbey, W. 
Blashill, Esq., read a paper on the abbey, giving not only its history, but fully 
explaining the various portions of the ruins, their dates and former purposes, 
which, so much has time altered and destroyed them, are not immediately obvious 
to the ordinary observer. The other paper for the day, by Dr. M‘Cullough, was 
on the Old Red Sandstone deposits of the district, illustrated by many valuable 
and interesting fossils from neighbouring quarries and by the hills and beld escarp- 
ments of the surrounding valley. 
The third field meeting was in conjunction with the Caradoc Field Club, to 
visit Old Radnor and Stanner ; I was unable to be present at this meeting, which 
I understand was in every way successful. I hope the field address, by R. W. 
Banks, Esq., will appear in our transactions. 
On the fourth meeting, on August 25, the Club went further afield than 
usual, visiting the Brown Clee Hill. The weather was exceedingly favourable. 
The British and Roman camps on the summits of Brown Clee, of Nordy Bank, 
aud of Abdon Burf were visited and inspected, and the account of them given by 
the Rev. Arthur Clewes, in a short but valuable address, added most materially 
to the interest with which they were viewed; the hut circles, if hut circles they 
were, on the summit of the hill, did not meet with a fully satisfactory explanation 
at the hands of any of the members present. Time did not admit of any of the 
coal pits which are worked here being investigated. The same reason interfered 
