ep eben) uli 
~~ se Y ere 
xi 
as I have not yet made an admeasurement with instruments, 
which I expect soon to do. 
Advancing into the wood at the top of the hill, our President 
observed on the scrubby oak trees some galls, which proved to be 
those of the Oynips quercus petiolata, which could not have been 
introduced into our county more than two years. A few weeks 
after I found the same thing very sparingly in Oakley Park, and 
perhaps at present the park is the furthest easterly limit to which 
it has attained. 
In the arable on the same hill was found several specimens of the 
Avena fatua (Wild Oat), which were taken to the hotel for com- 
parison after dinner with specimens introduced by the Secretary 
from the College Botanical Garden, when he announced the fact 
_of having produced two types of cultivated oats, viz. the Potatoe 
and Zurtarian forms from the A. fatua, the result having been 
attained in five years, a circumstance of great agricultural interest, 
inasmuch as farmers had long maintained that in some land 
cultivated, degenerated in the wild, oat, which is one of our most 
troublesome weeds. Upon this matter experiments are still going 
on, and no doubt further facts of interest will be elicited in 
another season. 
The dinner at the George was a nice affair, no paper however 
followed, as the time was fully occupied in discussing the Frocester 
Hill section, and indeed the proceedings terminated all too soon, 
train time obliging us to close the meeting somewhat abrubtly. 
And here, too, ends the reswmé of our proceedings for the past 
session, from which, I think you will agree with me, we may 
safely conclude that in no former year have we had to record 
better meetings, they have been uniformly characterised by a 
good attendance, in which kindly feeling and earnest work have 
ever prevailed. 
I cannot conclude this Address without referring to the im- 
portant scientific gathering which took place in our county during 
the past year—I refer to the meeting of the British Association 
at Cheltenham—and while it must be gratifying to our Club to 
know how successful that meeting was, being indeed one of the 
best of this important scientific body, it will be doubly so to find 
the marked respect shown by that august assembly to our little 
band of naturalists ; for while many of our members held important 
posts in the different committees, for which they were so well 
thanked both by the Association and the Town of Cheltenham. 
The Museum of Geology, got together by Dr. Wright, Mr. 
Pierson, and the Rev. R. Hepworth and others, will long be refer- 
red to as the best of its kind to which the British Association was 
yet ever welcomed. 
It was my intention to have given an analysis of the different 
Natural History papers read at the Association, but I find that 
this Address is even now sadly longer than usual, and I shall 
therefore only just mention a few with which we are more 
immediately concerned. 
