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The Annual Winter Meeting of the Warwickshire 

 Naturalists' and Archaeologists' Field Club was held at 

 the Museum, Warwick, on Tuesday, March 14th, 1882. 

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

 the Civil Costume of Gentlemen in Shakespeare's age, 

 as illustrated by Monumental Effigies in Warwickshire," 

 by the President, M. H. Bloxam, Esq., F.S.A. (2) "On 

 fossil Spiders and Scorpions," by the Vice-President, 

 the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S. (3) "On some 

 Crinoidal and other beds in the Great Oolite of 

 Gloucestershire, and their probable equivalents in North 

 Oxfordshire," by E. A. Walford, Esq., F.G.S. 



The first Summer Meeting was held at Gretton and 

 Sudeley Castle. The members present visited the 

 Middle Lias quarry at Gretton, and thence to Sudeley 

 Castle, which, with the Roman Villa lately discovered in 

 Mrs. Dent's grounds, occupied the rest of the day. 



The next Summer Meeting was held at Solihull, 

 Knowle, and the Temple, where the churches and other 

 objects of archaeological interest were visited. 



The Archaeological Day was held at Tamworth, where 

 the Castle was explored, the Church and other points of 

 interest ; at Dosthill a disused Norman Chapel and some 

 ancient Cambrian rocks were inspected, and Kingsbury 

 Church later on, in the return to Tamworth. 



The last Summer Meeting was held at Nuneaton ; 

 only Geologists and no Archaeologists being present, the 

 day was entirely devoted to Geology. Some new and 



