We dined at the Foley Anus, and wore joined by the IMcmbers 

 of the Mtilvern Club and several visitors. After dinner Mb. Symonds 

 (who had been prevented by indisposition from joining ns at Adam's 

 Eocks, and there giving the party the benefit of his complete know- 

 ledge of the subject, and the locahty, by a lecture on the spot) 

 favored us with an able address, noticing recent important discoveries 

 in geology, such as animal remains found in the Long Mynde Eocks, 

 near Church Stretton, hitherto believed to be azoic ; the discovery 

 of the remains of fish in the South "Wales Coal Fields by Dr. Bevan, 

 and of a highly organized flowering plant in the Newcastle Coal 

 Shale : also the new light thrown on the " tile-stones " by the 

 researches of Mr. Banks, and the greatly enlarged range over which 

 Trilobitic life extended, &c. Then followed an animated discussion, 

 sustained cliiefly by Mr. Lees, of Worcester, and Mb. Flavel 

 Edmunds, of Hereford, on the sudden appearance of plants, rare 

 in the district, in railway cuttings ; Mr. Edmunds maintained that 

 they clearly resulted from the germination of seeds, buried for ages, 

 but stm retaining vitality ; Mr. Lees considered that such seeds 

 must have been brought thither by the winds, and rejected the 

 admissibility of the other explanation. 



Tour President then called attention to an iuteresting specimen 

 of a hybridized tree from the garden of Mr. Godsall, of Hereford : 

 its stock was a yellow Laburnum, which had been budded with a 

 purple one, and .for several years produced only the purple flower of 

 a Laburnum ; now, however, besides here and there perfect purple 

 and perfect yellow flowers, appeared a third and distinct kind, the 

 Cytisus, as separate and as perfect as either of the others ; indeed 

 the small branch which was shown had all three on it. Mr. Elmes 

 Steele subsequently wrote that Mr. Saunders, of Abergavenny, 

 had a tree in his nursery showing the same facts. Mr. Blashill 

 also reported a similar case in the nursery of Mr. MoPherson, of 

 Plaistow, Essex. Several speculations as to the cause of this most 

 remarkable fact were hazarded, but it was eventually allowed that 

 the whole was the result of laws purely vital and beyond our 



