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After dinner some papers were read, which will appear in our 
annals, and Mr. Jones exhibited a small and evidently simple 
instrument, which shewed such marvellous effects of the powers of 
extremely rapid rotation; that, although perhaps it was only an ex- 
tension of the powers of the humming-top, yet it was so wonderful 
an. extension, that no more business was done that evening, and the 
fixing of the meetings for that summer were postponed till our next 
Club day. 
On May 18, a considerable party met at Stroud, and walked to 
the newly-erected Cemetery ; where, in addition to a beautiful view 
of the Valley of Stroud, opening into the great Vale of the Severn, 
was found a very curious and interesting fault exposed (as all faults 
must be) by the levelling of the Graveyard. Nor were we less 
pleased: or interested by a collection of curiosities at the house of the 
Keeper of the Grounds, which shewed that, where taste and 
ingenuity exist, wealth is not necessary to develope them. 
We also visited another fault of about thirty feet in a quarry at 
Swift’s Hill, and then walked to Stroud Glade, where, in a farmyard, 
we found the yet vigorous remains of a Wytch Elm, hardly to be 
matched in England. Alas! we were unprovided with measures, 
and determined to return at a future time better provided—which 
determination, like many others, has never been carried out. We 
decided, however, that it was about sixty feet in circumference, and 
though only a thin shell of wood was attached to the bark, yet the 
latter was entire, with the exception of a gap some three feet wide, 
by which we entered, and a hole cut in the opposite side, through 
which a handle had worked, when the hollow had been used as a 
convenient shed for a cyder-press. The shell, I think, was from 
fifteen to twenty feet high, and from thence rose a very vigorous 
growth of young wood, which is frequently lopped, to prevent its 
weight from breaking the thin shell of trunk. The manner in which 
the bark has rounded the edges of some of the small holes in the 
tree, and formed a complete rose in the hollow, is most curious, 
On Wednesday, June 30, a very small party set forth from 
Tewkesbury to visit the quarries on Brockridge Common, hoping to 
find there some of our Members who knew the spot, and had pro- 
mised to attend. After waiting some time, and seeing little, they 
walked to the neighbouring Church at Ripple, where there was 
much to please the archeologist, especially when shown by the 
kind Rector, and returned along the Valley to Tewkesbury. Some 
little time after they had sat down to dinner the missing and much 
missed portion of the party came in, haying lost much time in 
hunting for the first detachment. After many regrets had been 
expressed, and much consultation had taken place as to how such 
contre temps might be avoided for the future, no better means could 
be suggested than that members should answer the Secretary’s letters, 
and endeavour to reach the place of meeting at the time fixed. 
On Wednesday, July 29, a large party of our Club, and a far 
larger party of Ladies and strangers, met at Gloucester, wiih the 
