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The dinner, under the presidency of Sir Roderick, was most 
numerously attended, and the guests speedily adjourned, by the 
invitation of the ladies, to coffee, after which Mr. Buckman read 
a paper on one of the forms of Terebratula (7. perovalis var. 
vis ats 
do not know whether I may have been much to blame on 
many former occasions, for promoting discussions between the 
members of the Club. I certainly have often done so, and have 
greatly enjoyed the exhibition of the talent and knowledge that 
these discussions have called forth. Alas! must this pleasure 
cease—must we check at once all shew of a difference of opinion, 
for fear that it should degenerate into animosity? Can we not 
hear an opinion, even contrary to our own, expressed, without 
imputing an intentional wrong ? 
The meeting, alas, terminated with a feeling that a somewhat 
uncomfortable had occurred, and with an idea that for such small 
and unpretending affairs as ours, meetings of a moderate size 
were preferable to very large ones. 
August 28th, the Club should have met at Berkeley, (so says 
Mr. Jones, to whose kindness I am indebted for the following 
able report,) but Purnell B. Purnell, Esq., having invited the most 
constant attendants of our meetings to Breakfast at his residence, 
the “venue’’ was laid at Stancombe Park, instead of the Berkeley 
_Arms, whither, accordingly the Club repaired. Antecedent and 
posterior to, the usual commencement of the proceedings, that is 
a hearty and well-provided breakfast, in which Ladies were allowed 
to participate, some of the treasures of that Gentleman’s collection 
were thrown open to inspection, the variety and costliness of which 
surprised many. Although not a professed geologist, rare speci- 
mens varying from all the specimens in his neighbourhood to the 
Mammalian Crag, invited the attention of the geologists of the 
party ; and although not a professed antiquarian, the collection of 
personal ornaments of the Egyptian, Etruscan, Greek, Roman, 
and Medieval periods will not soon be forgotten by those who 
gazed with interest only, upon relics connected with the social 
progress of the human species. 
The delight with which the party traversed the tastefully laid 
out grounds, can only be indicated, but not conveyed. Herea 
subterranean passage, opening out into one of those bursts of 
sylvan scenery which the “cwms” of the Cotteswolds alone can 
parallel. There a small classical building, replete with treasures 
of ancient art, derived from all the people already alluded to, and 
not excluding the wonders of Nineveh and Babylon. Here a 
pond, dilated by the exquisite taste which dictated its construc- 
tion into all the landscape effect of a lake; there a receptacle of 
the rarest stuffed birds, paintings, models of fishes and fruits, 
from the universal Exhibition of 1851, and paintings of esteemed 
old masters, which divided attention with the artfully set scenery 
