59 

 THE DAY AT MALYERN 



AXD THE 



MISTLETOE IN HEREFORDSHIRE. 



Read hj Dr. Bull, at the Annual Meeting of the Woolhope 

 Naturalists' Field CM, March 11th 1864, with some additions. 



On the 7th of September' the Club met at Malvern T.inV 

 for a grand field day, with the Members of the Malvern, Worces- 

 tershire, Cotteswold, Dudley, Severn Valley, and Caradoc Clubs. 



Having partaken of the kind hospitality of The Reverend 

 Thomas King, at Lyttelton House, and transacted the ordinary 

 business of the Club, our Members joined the general assemblage 

 in a visit to the very interesting Abbey Church at Great Malvern, 

 which has been recently restored by Mr. Gilbert Scott. A 

 brief history of the Abbey was given by J. S. Walker, Esq., 

 with an explanation of the curious and very old glass in the 

 South west Chapel. 



The Museum of the Malvern Club at the house of the 

 Messrs. Bueeows was next visited, and after a short inspection 

 of some of the many interesting fossils of the district, which it 

 contains, a general move was made for the summit of the Wor- 

 cestershire Beacon. From this, (the highest point of the Malvern 

 Hills), a most interesting and eloquent Lectm-e was given by the 

 Rev W. S. Symonds, F.G.S., President of the Malvern Club, on 

 the Geology of the surrounding district. It was thoroughly ap- 

 preciated by every one, but enjoyed the more especiaUy by those 

 gentlemen who had wisely carried up with them their great coats. 

 The Geologists, under the guidance of De. Holl, then pursu- 

 ed their way across the Llandovery conglomerate of Miss Phillips 

 to the Upper Silurian Rocks, and thence by Ham Green, Back- 

 burrow Wood, and Stoctons Copse, to the lime-kilns near the 

 Croft Farm, and on down the valley to inspect the trap bosses 

 in Cowleigh Park. 



