of Mr. S. B. Kelland, at the school, Llauwyrtwyil ; and the other on the 

 valley of the Ithon, with Capt. Penry Lloyd, of Hoewy Hall, Llandrindod. 

 These gentlemen had kindly undertakeii to make careful observations for the 

 Club ; and with those of Lewis Lloyd, Esq., of Khydoldog, Rhayader, which 

 had been also kindly promised, the reports would be much more satisfactory 

 than has been the case hitherto from observations made only at Hereford. These 

 proceedings were apjjroved, eight new members were then elected to the Club, 

 \'iz.. Dr. Taylor, of Cardiff ; the Rev. John Evans, Ailston Hill ; the Rev. R. H. 

 ■\Villiams, Byford ; Dr. Chapman, Abergavenny; "W. H. West, Esq., Gliffaes, 

 Crickhowell; F. Bodenham, Esq., Joseph Carless, Esq. (Town Clerk), and Mr. 

 John Bulmer, of Hereford ; and four others were proposed for election at a 

 future meeting. 



A suggestion was made by the President for the alteration of one of the 

 Rules, which will be brought forward on a future occasion, for by this time 

 the minute of dejiarture was at hand and they all soon found themselves seated 

 in the tiain for the Ashperton Station. Here the work of the day wai to 

 begin, and a body of gentlemen of some thirty naturalist-power, under the 

 guidance of Dr. J. H. Wood, of Tanington, struck across the fields for Eastwood. 

 A sharp-eyed lover of ferns, Mr. Lloyd, of Kington, quickly detected the little 

 Adder's-tongue fern, Ophiocilossum vulgatum, and it was afterwards frequently 

 found during the day's walk. Passing through Eastwood — a wood of young 

 oaks with profitable ash nurses in attendance — as well as its wet and dirty 

 ground permitted, the far corner close to the high road was soon reached. 



Tlie Montrose Oak lives here. It has been named by Lady Emily Foley in 

 honour of the Duke of Montrose, and is a young freely growing specimen of 

 Qucrcus scsailiflora. It measures 11 ft. 7 in. in circumference at five feet from 

 the ground, and has a diametric spread of foliage of, B. and W., 22 yards, and 

 N. and S. , 2G yards. It carries its timber well up into its head, and has a trunk 

 of some 45 feet, which is rather more than half the height of the tree. It 

 promises to become a fine tree, but it sadly wants just now the attention of a 

 careful woodward. Several dead boughs should be at once taken off, iot the 

 siie of them is such as may otherwise do a serious injui-y to the tree itself. This 

 tree has only increased two inches in circumference during the last five years, 

 and the question as to its age elicited various oiunions. Sir George Cornewall 

 attempted to throw light upon it shortly afterwards in the most practical way. 

 An oak had been felled in a field near it, which showed clearly its rings of 

 growth. It measured 7 ft. 5 in. at five feet high, and with the allowance of 

 the timberman's measure of six inches more for the bark, 7 ft. 11 in. It was 

 found to have exactly 81 rings of annular growth, and, judging from their 

 relative thickness, be it added, this tree certainly bore out well the opinion 

 of Mr. South, in his "Essay on the Age and Growth of Trees," that an oak of 

 sixty years standing will, in twenty-four years more, double the contents of 

 its timber. From this observation, and some other facta mentioned, it was 

 thought that the Montrose oak could not be more than 110 or 120 years old. 



