Wnolljopc naturalists' JW& Club. 



May 24th 1888. 



In real Queen's weather, on this our Gracious Majesty's sixty-ninth birtliday, the 

 first Field-meeting this year was held on Thursday, May 24th, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Kington, a district especially interesting to botanists and geologists. A 

 large muster of members assembled at Barr's Court railway station ; it increased 

 in numbers by the addition of members picked up at intermediate stations, until 

 upon arrival at Dolyhir station the nuister roll was composed of the following 

 strength : — Rev. Wm. Elliot, President ; Mr. Charles Fortey, Vice-President ; 

 Mr. Thomas Blashill, a former President ; Sir Herbert Croft, Bart., Drs. T. A. 

 Chapman, J. H. Wood, Revs. T. M. Beavan, F. T. Havergal, E. J. Holloway, 

 A. W. Horton, W. H. Lambert, A. Ley, F. H. Tatham, F. S. Stooke Vaughan, 

 R. W. Warner, M. G. Watkins, and H. T. Williamson, Messrs. J. Carless, R. 

 Clarke, W. J. Grant, S. W. E. GiUiat, G. H. Hadfield, W. H. Harrison, J. W. 

 Lloyd, J. G. Martin, T. C. Paris, J. Riley, H. Wilson, with Mr. James B. 

 Pilley, Assistant Secretary, and H. C. Moore, Honorary Secretary. The 

 following visitors accompanied: — Revs. E. R. Firmstone, H. Gascoigne, A. Lee, 

 and — Williams, Surgeon Peak, Lieutenant Jones, Messrs. E. W. Bowell, W. 

 Carless, Hugh Croft, A. E. Edwards, P. Horton, W. Howell, C. W. Lloyd, 

 A. Parker, — Wishlade. 



The Rev. Wm. Bamford, Curate of Old Radnor, received the members at 

 Dolyhir station, and introduced Mr. C. W. Lloyd, the manager of the Old Radnor 

 quarries, which are contiguous to the station, who at once conducted the party 

 first to the quarry facing the entrance to the railway station, which exhibited 

 limestone metamorphosed by igneous action, thence to the neighbouring quarry of 

 the more valuable 'Wenlock limestone, where he exhibited, amongst other fossils, 

 a very perfect specimen of an euomphalus two inches in diameter. Mr. Lloyd 

 then persuaded some of the party to cross the railway line to the quarries of 

 Messrs. Field and Co., to inspect the laying of a charge of " Gelatine-dynamite " 

 or "blasting gelatine." The superintendent of the blasting operations brought 

 out of his portable magazine a cartridge enveloped in paper, about the length and 

 size of the middle finger. Having broken it, he passed round for inspection the 

 innocent-looking substance, gelatinous to the sight, and to the touch yielding on 

 pressure. Api)lying a detonator upon the end of a fuse, dropping one or more 

 cartridges into the borings in proportion to their depths, or to the amount of 

 demolition required, in a few minutes, and so soon as the members had taken up 

 their positions in safety, several demolitions were successfully accomplished. In 

 comparison with demolition by gunpowder, the bulk, the caution and experience 



