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The first day's operations Avere somewhat impaired by the 

 weather. IIoweTer, under the guidance of our excellent and 

 scientific associate Mr. Lightbody, who appears to know intimate- 

 ly every rock and every fossil of the district, we traversed a very 

 beautiful and interesting line of country, and found many objects 

 worthy of our hammers, over which we had the advantage of 

 all the scientific assistance we could require from our learned 

 associates of Ludlow. 



On the second day we started from the Craven. Arms up the 

 Onibrook, we lingered for a considerable time at the well-known 

 Caradoc Shale Bank, where innumerable specimens, none however 

 quite perfect, of Trinucleus Concentricus were obtained, besides 

 other interesting Fossils. "We then walked on to Horderly, and 

 were well rewarded for our search in the interesting strata met 

 with, on the line of march. After this we aU re-assemble d at 

 Stokesay Castle, where we found ample and much needed re- 

 freshment, and where Mr. Latouche exhibited a beautiful model 

 constructed by himself of the Geological features presented by 

 the surrounding country 



On thc^26th July, at the kind invitation of the Malvern Club, 

 I had the pleasure of a delightful field day in the Malvern Hill 

 District, The points of Geological interest were : to receive from 

 Dr. Holl, a demonstration of the Laurentian or Pre-Cambrian 

 Eocks, discovered by his most able and extensive researches; and 

 to visit some very interesting excavations in the Drift Beds near 

 Clencher's Mill, made by the Malvern Club, under the supervision 

 of their learned and indefatigable President, Mr. Symonds. On 

 that occasion the Cottswold Club was represented by its Presi- 

 dent, Sir "WUliam Guise, and your Society was represented by 

 Mr. Lightbody, by our excellent and painstaking Secretary, Mr, 

 Thompson, and by your President. "We had a delightful day ; Dr. 

 HoU most efficiently and satisfactorily explained the very interest- 

 ing and conclusive views he bad been able to take of the Geology 

 of the Malvern District, and exhibited the unmistakable evidences 

 of the existence of the Laurentian Rocks, near the "Wind's Point, 

 and at Midsummer Hill. I shall not dwell upon these discoveries, 



