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number of the Woolhope Club. Proceeding along the ridge of 
of that most interesting line, known as the Malvern Range, for 
some distance under the guidance of our lamented friend Strick- 
land, it will long live in the recollection of those who enjoyed it, 
that he proposed a half hour’s halt on one of the peaks, and, 
while we lay on the greensward around him, gave us such a brief 
but comprehensive lecture as few save Strickland could give, 
on the vast and extraordinary disruptions which, as far as human 
proof could shew, had caused the features of the exquisite land- 
scape now spread at our feet: shewing how and at what period 
that wondrous cliff on which we stood was reared, which though 
now, from the washing away of its apex, stands but a few hundred 
feet in height, must at one time, in all probability have towered 
two miles in height above the Worcestershire vale, now stretched 
at our feet; while the latter, probably in those days and long 
after, was a broad arm of the sea, separating England from Wales. 
Deeply as we lament our loss of such a man, endeared to most 
of us as a friend, as much as admired by all as one of the most 
eminent naturalists of the day, I cannot but for my own part re- 
joice that the last recollection we have of him was one so truly 
characteristic. 
Proceeding through Lord Somers’s Park, where we examined 
some of the Silurian beds, to the inn at Eastnor, (not having 
time, alas, to make a digression even to see the mistletoe in the 
oak, a short distance from the end of the ridgeway drive), we 
reached the inn, and dined, to the number of sixty members of 
the three Clubs ; the principal feature of the evening being, I think, 
the appointment of a committee who undertook to draw up for us 
a Flora of Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, and Herefordshire. 
We trust that this may not be lost sight of. A most interesting 
paper on fishes of his county, was read by Mr. Whateley, and one 
by Mr. Lees, on the Malvern flora, and one by Mr. Davies, of 
Tewkesbury, on the natural history of the swallow. 
On July 16, we again attempted the visit to Sharpness, the 
pleasure of which, if not altogether lost, had been sadly diminished 
by the rain; and this time we were more successful. After 
breakfasting at the Spread Eagle, at Gloucester, we embarked in 
the Waye steamer, which took us down the canal to Frampton 
bridge ; from whence we walked accross to Fretherne Cliff, and 
returning to the canal proceeded by steamer again to near Pur- 
ton Cliff, where the Lias and Silurian Strata appear in close 
proximity, From hence we walked by the grand works of the 
Basin at the mouth of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal to 
Sharpness Point, a small pleasure ground of Lord Fitzhardinge’s, 
which juts out boldly into the Severn, affording an exquisite view 
of the lower part of the estuary down to Bristol and Chepstow. 
On August 16, we made a new experiment in our Club, and, 
emboldened by our previous success, we ventured to invite a large 
party of Ladies to our meeting at Cirencester. Alas! the weather 
was less propitious than our fair guests, The latter came in con- 
