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of vegetable matter than at any other time either before 
or since; and to this we owe the conversion of woody 
matter, under heat and pressure and favouring chemical 
conditions, into coal, one of the most valuable and impor- 
tant products we possess. Though no insects have been 
found in the Warwickshire coal field, they may nevertheless 
occur, and as they are known in many other coal deposits, 
we may draw the same inferences from them as we have 
done in the case of the Lias, and look forward some day 
to the discovery of other and higher forms of animal life. 
The Warwickshire Naturalist’s and Archeologist’s Field 
Club held their Annual Winter Meeting at the Museum, 
Warwick, by permission of the Council of this Society, 
on February 25th, 1870. The following Papers were 
read :—‘*On ‘Practical Geology,’ by the Rev. P. B. 
Brodie, Vice-President, M.A., F.G.S.; and on ‘Swiss 
Lake Dwellings,’ by Dr. Corfield, M.D., F.G.S.” 
The first summer meeting was held at Dumbleton, near 
Evesham, on May 21st; the second at Leicester, for 
Barrow-on-Soar, Charnwood Forest, and the Leicester- 
shire Coal Field, on the 22nd of June, being the usual 
summer excursion for three or four days. 
Owing to the small attendance, the meeting which 
should have been held at Bromsgrove Lickey, in August, 
was unanimously postponed until next year. 
