Tlie Warwickshire Naturalists' and Archaeologists' Field 

 Club (by the kind permission of the Council of this Society,) 

 held their Annual Meeting at the Museum, Warwick, on 

 Tuesday, March 14th, 1876. In the absence of the President 

 the Chair was taken by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, Vice- 

 President, who delivered a lecture on " A further extension 

 of the RhcEtics in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Notting- 

 hamshire, Rutland, Lincolnshire, Yorkshire, and Cumberland, 

 and on the occurrence of some supposed I'emaius of Laby- 

 rinthodon, and a new Radiate therein." A paper was then 

 read on "Subterranean Coventry," by Mr. W. G. Fretton. 



The first Summer Meeting of the Club was held at 

 Chipping Norton, &c. to examine the interesting Railway 

 cuttings now in progress between Hook Norton and the 

 former town. The Inferior and Great Oolite and Upper 

 Lias were exposed at various places along the line, and duly 

 examined. The middle Lias at Chipping Norton was 

 especially interesting from the numerous fossils which have 

 been obtained from it in an unusually good state of preser- 

 vation, including several new species, a list of which is 

 given in the proceedings of the Club. A visit was also 

 made to the famous RoUwright stones, and the Archieologists 

 went to Swacliffe, Brailes, Sutton, Cherriugton, and 

 Wichford. 



The Midsummer excursion was held at Folkestone, under 

 the guidance of the Rev. S. Cooke, whose loss the Club 

 have since to deplore, and who Avas a liberal donor to the 

 Warwickshire Natural History and Archseological Society. 

 On the first day a visit was paid to the Chalk and well 

 known Gault, rich in rare and beautiful fossils ; the other 

 days were devoted to the Lower Green Sand at Sandgate 

 and Hythe, where the junction of that formation with the 



