the late lamented Ma Sgobie, the first Honorary Secretary of the 

 Club. We dined at Hereford (Mitre Hotel). Afterwards the 

 Honorary Secretary mentioned the discovery of the Eowlstone fossil 

 alluded to elsewhere (the specimen itself now being at the Museum 

 of Economic Geology) — its discovery is esteemed one of the highest 

 importance. Dr. Bull called attention to the rapid spread of the 

 Anacharsis, and its presence in our Canal ; also to the circumstance 

 that it had been found at llforthampton in 1836, and that Dr. Hooker 

 had noticed it in Scotland in 1841. Mr. Flavel Edmunds was now 

 requested to revert to a subject discussed at Tarriugton — that of 

 buried seeds — he gave many instances, chiefly from excavations in 

 railway cuttings, where plants, fresh to the district, had sprung up 

 in great abundance : ilhistrating as he believed, the admitted fact 

 that seeds may retain their vitality for an almost indefinite period, 

 if separated from those essentials to germination, air, moisture, 

 warmth, and darkness. Yom- President instanced a fact in support 

 of these views, in the sudden appearance, and very great amount, of 

 the equisetum in the Brick-yard at Shelwick, alongside the Shrews- 

 bury and Hereford Eailway, where previously none had been 

 observed. Botanists made no important "finds." Campanula 

 Pajtula and Lepidium Smithii were the most notable. 



THE GEOLOGICAL SUMMARY. 



It wiU be expected that an Institution, whose field is Siluria, and 

 which even takes its name from the most remarkable spot of that 

 remarkable region — should have a Avord to say about geology. 

 Nor -vvall that expectation be disaj)pointed, seeing that it is our good 

 fortune to nimiber among ourselves several acute and successful 

 observers. No special discoveries, that I am aware of, were made 

 by the Members in their Field Days during the past year, as had 

 been the case in a former year, when they foimd the footprints of a 



