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of the Mendip Hills, — it being a growing opinion in the minds 

 of many physicists that eastward, upon the general strike or 

 bearing of the axis of the Meudips, and beneath the counties 

 of Wilts, Sussex, and Kent, there may be a prolongation or 

 extension of the coal-field under discussion towards the east, to 

 meet a corresponding westerly extension of the Belgian and 

 North Trench coal series — such, indeed, as might have con- 

 stituted the old terrestrial surface prior to those changes which 

 cover up and conceal the palasozoic rocks which must undoubtedly 

 underlie the S.E. of England, and which it is hoped we may ere 

 long be able to correlate with those of the area brought under 

 the notice of the Cotteswold Club. 



The first Field Meeting for the season took place, by invitation 

 from Miss Strickland, at 



APPEELET COUET, KEAE TEWKESBUEY, 



on Wednesday, 15th May. 



The programme for the day embraced a visit to the Abbey 

 Church at Tewkesbury; the " Battle Field" in that neighboiir- 

 hood ; and the ancient Church of Deerhui'st. The party first 

 visited the grand old Abbey, where a paper descriptive of this 

 fine Church was read by the Eev. Canon Davie s, who obligingly 

 acted as guide over all the most interesting parts of the building. 

 From Tewkesbury the party proceeded, passing over the field 

 known as "the Bloody Meadow," to Tewkesbury Park, the 

 residence of Mr. Saegeaunt. Here ladies and gentlemen formed 

 a semicircle upon the grass around the Eev. W. S. Stmonds, who, 

 from the steps before the drawing-room window, by way of 

 rostrum, and in full view of the ground to which his lecture 

 referred, read a fall and well-digested account of the battle 

 which decided the fate of the Lancastrian party on the bloody 

 field by Tewkesbury. 



A short walk of two miles brought the members to Deerhurst 

 Church, where a paper was read from the pen of the Vicar, 

 the Eev. G. Butteuworth. The Church of Deerhiu-st, one 

 of the most interesting in the comitry, is said by Parker to 



