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belong to the Field Club, it may interest them to add an 
account of its progress during the past year. 
By the kind permission of the Council of the Natural 
History and Archzological Society the annual Winter Meet- 
ing of the Club was held at the Museum, Warwick, on 
February 28th. 
The Members and their friends, and several ladies, assem- 
bled there at 12 o’clock, shortly after which the Vice-Presi- 
dent, in the absence of the President, took the chair. 
The Rev. R. W. Johnson delivered an address, at the 
request of the President. 
A well merited vote of thanks having been passed, Mr. 
Whittem called upon Mr. Brodie to read his paper “On the 
eruptive forces which prevailed during the Triassic, Carbon- 
iferous, and Silurian periods in a portion of Warwickshire, 
Worcestershire, and Staffordshire, and a short account of the 
nature and origin of Basalt.” 
This paper was illustrated by crawings and sections, and 
in the course of it the author gave a viva voce sketch of the — 
fauna and flora of the Carboniferous and Silurian epochs. 
A vote of thanks having been proposed and carried, Mr. 
Whittem gave an account of a most interesting discovery in 
certain superficial deposits, near Coventry, of an ancient 
hammer-head, from undisturbed beds of clay, supposed to 
belong to the glacial period. 
Mr. Brodie pointed out the importance of this discovery, 
and gave a short statement of the occurrence of flit imple- 
ments in the drift of the South of France associated with 
mammalian remains. 
A very lively discussion followed, in which several 
