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The Shells, which are a Jarge and valuable series, require 
some attention, as many of them have become displaced. A 
series of the land and freshwater Shells of Warwickshire 
would be an important addition. 
As many members of the Natural History Society do not 
belong to the Field Club, it may interest them to add a short 
account of its progress during the past year. 
The Winter Meeting of the Warwickshire Naturalists’ 
Field Club was held at the Museum, Warwick, on Thursday, 
the 13th of February. This was a joint meeting of the 
Malvern Club with the Warwickshire, and was tolerably 
well attended, though not so numerous as the oceasion 
merited. In the absence of the President, the Rev. P. B. 
Brodie, F.G.S., the Vice-President took the chair. He 
opened the business of the day by welcoming the members 
of the Malvern Club, and then reviewed briefly the proceed- 
ings of the Warwick Field Club during the past year. He 
then called upon the Rev. St. J ohn Parry, President of 
Leamington College, to describe a portion of an antler of 
the red deer, which had been found in certain beds of clay, 
supposed to be London clay, near Gosport. It exhibited 
marksof a knife or hatchet ; and a short discussion followed 
as to the true nature of the deposit in which it occurred ; 
and the geologists present were unanimously of opinion 
that the clay would be found rather to belong to the drift 
than so old a formation as an eocene tertiary stratum. 
The Vice-President next called upon the Rev. W.Symonds, 
the President of the Malvern Field Club, to deliver his 
address on Geological Facts and Theories. He commenced 
