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the proceedings of our Club, and to report on the best plan to be 
adopted for the future. 
I trust we may be fully assured that both of these matters have 
been fully considered, as the first is a point almost touching the 
honour of our Club, while the latter touches its private interests. 
The President and Secretary were then re-elected, and the 
meetings for the ensuing year were fixed. 
A paper was read by Mr. Lycett, on the Perna Quadrata; and 
another on the bones of Beaver, Deer, &c. found in Nailsworth 
valley. And by Professor Buckman, “A notice of the Oxford 
Clay, as found near Cirencester.’ 
After dinner, in the hospitable Hall of the College, an animated 
discussion on that most interesting of topics—which has the great 
advantage of being an unceasing ground of battle, inasmuch as no 
two people can ever be brought to take the same view of it—viz. 
the nature and value of species—would no doubt have lasted till 
the crack of doom, had it not been far more agreeably cut short 
by a summons to tea. 
On May Ist, although we make a general rule not to accept 
the hospitality of any of our members, further than an occasional 
and rare invitation to breakfast, yet we made, I may almost say, 
our one exception, and spent most of the day at Apperly Court, 
the seat of our kind friend, Henry Strickland, Esq. 
After examining the beautiful specimens illustrative of different 
branches of natural history, and looking over the exquisite draw- 
ings of plants, by Miss Strickland, the members proceeded to 
Deerhurst Church, both to enjoy again the beauties of the Nor- 
man—or in part, as some hold, Saxon—architecture; and also to 
see the window of stained glass (by O’Connor) which our Club has 
been allowed to assist in putting up, in commemoration of our 
sincerely lamented friend and associate, Hugh E. Strickland, Esq. 
Much satisfaction was expressed by the subscribers who were 
present at the manner in which their wishes had been carried out. 
On returning to Apperley, the Club was entertained at dinner 
by Henry Strickland, with his usual hospitality; and if some sad 
thoughts intruded, we at any rate felt thankful to be allowed to 
meet again the family of one whom we had so loved and regretted. 
June the 12th was appointed for a meeting of the Worcester, 
Malvern, Woolhope, and Warwickshire Clubs, with our own, at 
Malvern. 
Yeomanry duties prevented my attendance, but, as I learn, the 
geologists, under the distinguished guidance of Sir Roderick Mur- 
chison, and the botanists under that of Mr. Lees, proceeded to 
the Warwickshire Beacon, where Sir Roderick delivered a most 
eloquent lecture on the geological formation of the country 
around that magnificent spot; after which Mr. Lees explained the 
principal features of the botany of his own loved hills. 
