The Annual Winter Meeting of the Warwickshire 

 Naturalists' and Archaeologists' Field Club was held at 

 the Museum, Warwick, on Thursday, March 17th, 1881. 

 The following papers were read and discussed: — (i) " On 

 the Archaeology of Natural History, especially with refer- 

 ence to the County of Warwick," by the President, M. H. 

 Bloxam, Esq., F.S.A. (2) " On the Foraminifera from 

 the Lias," by J. Slatter, Esq., F.G.S., fully illustrated 

 by excellent drawings by the author. 



The first Summer Meeting was held at the Abberley 

 Hills, Worcestershire, on May nth. A small party only 

 unfortunately joined this highly interesting excursion, 

 no archaeologists being present. The geologists devoted 

 the day to the geology of the district, noting the 

 Permian Breccia at Woodbury Hill ; and the Silurian 

 rocks, here and there nearly vertical, at Abberley Hill. 

 At Woodbury an extensive ancient British encampment 

 was passed. It was rather too early for the botanists, 

 and no plants of interest were observed. 



The Midsummer Meeting was held at Malton, in York- 

 shire, on Monday, June 13th, from whence excursions 

 were made by. the archaeologists and geologists to Castle 

 Howard, Vale of Pickering, Whitby, Scarborough, the dis- 

 trict immediately round Malton, and York. The Malton 

 Natural History Society and Field Club were of great 

 service in kindly helping the members, and many of 

 them joined the excursions, which were in all respects 

 highly interesting and instructive, especially the visit 

 paid to York Minster and the fine County Museum, and 

 the museums of Whitby and Scarborough. At Malton the 

 Vice-President gave a lecture on the Oolites and Lias of 



