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receive annual reports of great interest upon the good work which he 

 is carrying out in his experimental garden at the Royal Agricultural 

 College, at Cirencester ; and through his kindness I am enabled to 

 annex such a report to this address. It is my earnest desire to 

 encourage similar reports and records of facts occurring in other 

 departments of the vast realm of organic life : and to facilitate this, I 

 would suggest that Sectional Committees shall be formed, whose duty 

 it shall be to collect observations, draw up local lists, and make 

 report of such phenomena as may be deemed worthy of record. 

 From the active exertions of such Committees, if carried out m a 

 loving and energetic spirit, I cannot but anticipate very useful and 

 valuable results. 



With these prefatory remarks, I will proceed to describe the 

 operations of the Club during the past season. 



The Annual Meeting was held at the Swan Inn, Tewkesbury, on 

 Tuesday, 26th February, when you did me the honor to re-elect me 

 as your President, with Mr. John Jones as Secretary, After the 

 transaction of the usual routine business of the Club, the party 

 walked to Brockeridge Common, visiting by the way the " Mythe 

 Toot," from whence the ancient lake-beds of the Severn, with their 

 wide expanse of lacustrine drifts, are well seen. The " Mythe Toot" 

 owes its elevation to a "fault," extending along the line of the 

 Severn for some distance in the direction of Ripple ; the Keuper 

 Marls being elevated through the Lias which is developed at Sam 

 Hill and again beyond the " Toot," south of the line of fault. 



Between «' the Mythe" and Brockeridge, the party examined the 

 gravel-beds resting on the Keuper and Lias. These belong to the 

 marine drifts of the old Severn estuary, which at many points have 

 furnished the remains of Elephas primigenius, (Mammoth,) Bos 

 primigenius, and Rhinoceros tichorhinus. 



At Brockeridge, the Lias quarries were examined, and compared 

 with Dr. Wright's Section, as given in his valuable paper on the 

 Lias of the South of England. The Rev. W. S. Symonds drew 

 attention to certain concretionary nodules charged with fossil shells 

 and Saurian remains, which he stated were derived from the lowest 

 beds of the Lias at their point of contact with the Red Mari. These 

 he considered to be the equivalents of the "Bone-bed" of the 

 '' Avicula-contorta" series. He stated that he had found similar 

 nodules at Sam Hill and elsewhere, occupying the same relative 

 position to the under-lying beds. 



From Brockeridge the party directed their steps to the village of 

 Ripple, placed on a line of fault extending northwards along the 



