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The following is an abstract of the proceedings of the 
W.N. & A. Field Club during the past year. 
The First Summer Meeting of the Club was held at 
Bromsgrove Lickey, on Tuesday, May 24th, 1871. Under the 
guidance of Mr. Hemming, the party first inspected an old 
Manor House near Barnt Green, thence to some old quarries 
of Wenlock limestone, with a few fossils, to Colmar’s end 
examining some interesting and instructive sections of altered 
Llandovery sandstone en route. This sandstone forms the 
main mass of these hills, and is for the most part converted 
into Quartz Rock, indicating a line of eruption, and finally 
graduates into an ordinary grit with characteristic fossils, a 
few of which were obtained, here and there the Permian 
pebble beds were traced in situ, dipping beneath the new 
red sandstone. On the other side of Bromsgrove, several 
quarries of lower Keuper sandstone were visited, one of 
which affords a very fine section, amd contains numerous 
imperfect remains of plants, chiefly impressions of a finely 
striated stem, these occur forthe most part in the bottom 
rock of fine micaceous sandstone of a grey and red colour, 
thickly bedded. The deepest quarry is worked to a depth of 
fifty feet at least. Many of the sandstones make an ex- 
cellent building stone, and harden by exposure. The quarry 
where the remarkable fish Dipteronotus was found, was 
carefully searched, but no traces of bones or scales could be 
discovered. The Lickey is the most eastern extension of 
the Llandovery sandstone ; but a considerable portion of 
these hills is composed of Permian Breccia. Some rare 
plants occur there, such as Viola rubra, and the grass of 
Parnassus, but were not noticed on this occasion. 
The next Meeting being an excursion of three or four 
days, took place at Woolhope, in Herefordshire, on Tuesday, 
