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fatigue of the day, an abundant and well supplied dinner proved 
very welcome. 
After dinner the President invited Dr. Surrax to offer some 
further remarks on the “ Middle Lias,” to which he responded 
by describing the zones of life which distinguish the softer 
beds of the formation. This brought up the vexed question 
of Development versus Special Creations, a question which 
apparently can never be settled, because the partisans of either 
theory have no common ground of debate from which to start. 
The discussion, which was maintained with much animation, 
occupied the attention of the company until it was time to 
rejoin the train. 
The Second Field Meeting of the Club was held at 
ABBERLEY, 
on Tuesday, 22nd of June, at which, as I was not present, I 
am indebted for my report to the pen of one who was more 
fortunate than myself. 
The members assembled at the Worcester Railway Station, 
and made for Abberley through Ombersley and Witley, to the 
Hundred-House Inn, at the foot of the Abberley hills. This 
was made the head quarters of the Club for the day. The 
Abberleys are a prolongation of the Malverns, and present 
certain upheavals of trappoid breccia in places which, if not 
exciting causes of the dislocation of the adjacent strata of 
“Silurian” and “Old Red,” formed lines of departure from 
which the disturbance abutting upon them took its origin. 
A better field for the study of intricate points in the physical 
geology of the past could not be desired ; for here the Geologist 
stands upon an uplift of no mere local character, but one 
coincident with cosmic forces operating in a certain direction 
by way of the Malvern range, May Hill, Tortworth, and thence 
to Antrim, in Ireland. All along the chain are effects well 
marked by faults, upheavals and axes of disturbance, besides 
the presence of igneous rocks which have at intervals come to 
the surface, and speak for themselves in a language understood 
