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which will enable them to make many additions and important 
alterations which the crowded state of the rooms rendered 
essential, Many members and friends of the Society have 
kindly and liberally responded to the circular sent throughout 
the County. But, at the same time, the funds are inadequate 
and a larger sum is required, which the Council hope may still 
be obtained and that many will come forward to aid the Society 
to carry out the fresh arrangements for the contemplated 
improvements in the Museum. 
The Warwickshire Naturalists’ and Archzologists’ Field 
Club held their Winter Meeting at the Museum, Warwick, 
by the kind permission of the Warwickshire Natural 
History Society, on the 18th of February, 1863, at Twelve 
o’clock. In the absence of the President, the Rev. W. 
Johnson delivered the Annual Address, 
The Rey. P. B. Brodie, as Vice-President, occupied the 
chair, and regretted the absence and resignation of their 
late President, and proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Johnson 
for his kindness in preparing the Annual Address. 
The Vice-President then called upon Mr. Parker to give 
his promised Lecture on the “Hyena Den,’ at Wookey 
Hole, in Somersetshire, which was followed by a Paper 
by the Rey. R. Hudson, “ On the recent progress of Science 
in regard to British Land and Freshwater Mollusca.” 
A short discussion ensued, in which Messrs. Brodie, 
Tomes, Kirshaw, Johnson, and Faulkner took part. 
The business of the morning being concluded, the Vice- 
President adjourned the Meeting at three o’clock. Some 
of the Geologists of the party went to the Gravel Pits at 
