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Some well-executed flint arrow-heads from Ireland were shown by Mr. 

 E. Harford; and a roughly-hewn stone hatchet, from the neighbourhood 

 of May Hill, was laid on the table. 



Professor Buckman called the attention of members present to a 

 collection of small tubers of Oxalis edulis, from Algiers, where they are 

 said to grow as large as potatoes, and to be used as an esculent root. 

 These were liberally distributed among such of the members present as 

 expressed a desire to try the experiment of growing them in their own 

 gardens. 



Time not permitting the usual excur.sion into the country, the Club 

 visited the Museum of the E.ev. T. W. Norwood, where their attention 

 was particularly attracted by certain Saurian remains, derived from the 

 Great Oolite of Stowell Park, near Northleach. These were referred by 

 Dr. Wright to a species of Teleosawrus, new to this country, though 

 believed to have been found in France in strata of the same geological 

 age. The Saurian in question is said to have been described by Cuvier; 

 there was, however, some difficulty in determining the absolute identity 

 of the reptUe, in consequence of the absence of many important portions 

 of the skeleton, including the bones of the head. Dr. Wright promised 

 to make a careful examination of the example, with a view to a complete 

 report at a future meeting. 



About 60 gentlemen sat down to dinner at the Queen's Hotel. After 

 dinner three papers were read : — 



1 By Thomas Wright, M.D., on the "Palaeontology of the Dumbleton 



Beds." 



2 By the Rev. T. W. Norwood, on a "Tumulus lately opened at 



Eoxcote, near Withington." 



3 By Mr. John Jones, on the "Natural History of the Sharpness 



District on the River Severn." 



The account of the Foxcote Tumulus, as given by Mr. Norwood, is 

 interesting and worthy of notation. The following are the facts as 

 supplied by Mr. Norwood : — 



A party of antiquaries. General Younghusband, Captain Bell, Mr. 

 E. Harford, Dr. Bird, and the Rev. T. W. Norwood, visited the 

 locality referred to on the 25th February, 1863, where they found the 

 remains of what had been a large Tumulus, about 20 yards in diameter. 

 There were no indications of those large stones which mark so charac- 

 teristically so many Cotteswold barrows. A heap of greasy black earth 

 occupied the centre of the area. A human skeleton was found, that of a 

 young person, said to have been of the female sex. It is important to 



