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On Wednesday, May 21st, the Warwickshire Naturalists’ 
and Archeologists’ Field Club held their first Sammer Meet- 
ing at Evesham. The members assembled proceeded by train 
to Fladbury, but the weather being rainy, the Archzologists 
returned to Evesham, where they spent the day in examining 
the Churches and a collection of coms and antiquities; 
no account of which has yet been forwarded to the Secretary. 
The Geologists, who formed but a small party, braved the 
weather and walked to a gravel pit, opened on the lime at 
Fladbury. These gravels are called low-level drifts and 
are supposed to be of fresh water origin, as in places, 
especially at Bricklehampton, Bengworth, and Cropthorne, 
on the opposite side of the Avon, they contain such shells 
as Cyclas cornea, Unio antiquior and Cyrena consobrina, 
extinct in Europe, but still found living in the Nile, 
India, and America. Remains of elephant, hippopotamus, 
rhinoceros, hyzna, several species of deer and bos have 
been also collected from all these places. At Fladbury 
the drift consists of fine sand and coarse gravel, made up of 
rolled and water-worn pebbles of rocks of various ages, Lias 
fossils being most abundant, the materials of which were no 
doubt largely furnished by the adjacent Lias, The most 
interesting of these fossils is a species of Isastrea often of 
large size and in good preservation, which was first detected 
here by our able associate, Mr. Tomes. This coral has been 
found in situ at Fladbury brickyard and Bromsberrow by 
Messrs. Tomes, Chattock and Brodie. On leaving this pit 
the party proceeded to the Cracombe hills, where the lowest 
beds of the Lias are seen in conjunction with the red marl, 
The black shales of the Bone Bed (the Bone Bed itself being 
absent), the Pecten valonensis Bed and Estheria Bed are all 
