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On May 26th, a meeting did take place at Chipping Campden, 
but, alas, it could hardly be called a meeting of our Club, inas- 
much as owr only members who met there were our worthy 
Secretary and the Rey. P. B. Brodie, who came less as a member 
of the Cotteswold, than as President of the Warwickshire Club, 
who had agreed to meet there on that day. Never mind. While 
we can boast to have sent out so notable a scion from our Club to 
found another Club elsewhere—though we may regret that we 
or him less often than heretofore—we count him anything but 
ost. 
It appears that the party visited first the Church, and then the 
mounds left from the working of Mickleton tunnel, where a large 
collection of fossils were found—indeed most of those described 
in Mr. Gavey’s work—with the addition of a fine specimen of the 
Hippopodium ponderosum (whose existence was questioned by 
Mr. Gavey), found by the Secretary of our Club, and presented 
by him to the Natural History Society of Warwick. 
On June 28rd, a meeting had been fixed for Winchcombe. A 
small party met at the Ram, at Cheltenham, to breakfast, and 
proceeded in flys to the Rising Sun, the summit of the hill on the 
‘Winchcombe road. Here they separated: one section proceeding 
under charge of the Secretary, exploring the earth, found speci- 
mens of Mytilus jurensis,* Ter. Phillipsii, and T. Buckmani, 
amongst other shells of the inferior oolite ; while another section, 
under the charge of W. V. Guise, Esq. searching the air, appear 
for some time to have caught no species except certain Diptera— 
a race of diminutive Tartars, the catching of whom is neither pro- 
fitable nor pleasant. After a time, however, on the eastern slope 
towards Postlip, Mr. Guise had the satisfaction of taking the 
somewhat rare and local Procris statices (Green forester), with 
the Pyrausta purpuralis and punicealis, and found dead in the 
road (the coroner happily not having sat upon him) a fine speci- 
men of the Sphinx ligustri, or Privet Hawk moth. After dinner, 
a paper was read by Mr. Guise, “On some rare Bats discovered 
in the county,” the specimens illustrative of which were kindly 
presented by him to the Royal Agricultural College. 
In July, a meeting, honoured by the presence of a large number 
of ladies, again took place at Cirencester, and again formed two 
sections. The one, under the charge of the Secretary, explored 
Oakley Wood, where they found specimens of Hpipactis grandi- 
flora, E. latifolia, Oonvallaria majalis in fruit (this locality for the 
Sweet Lily of the Valley was discovered by Miss Haygarth), and 
other plants; while others of the Club, under the direction of 
Mr. Pooley and Mr. Jones, went first to a cornbrash quarry at 
Siddington, where a very satisfactory series of fossils of that bed 
* Dr. Wright maintains that he knows no such species as the Mytilus jurensis, 
but the Ammonite Jurensis does not exist in the Inferior oolite. 
