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The party then proceeded to the summit of May Hill, 
where Dr Smithe referred to the graphic remarks made there 
by Mr Hugh Strickland just forty years ago, and which will 
be found at page 19 in the History of the Club, by the 
President. 
Dr Smithe called attention to the strongly marked cause 
of disturbance, as shown by the igneous rocks, faults, upheavals, 
contortions, foldings, and thrusts, as were seen in May Hill 
and Huntley Hill quarries. 
He also referred to Salop, where the Brown and the 
Titterstone Clee Hills, with their Diorites piercing the coal 
measures and scorching the coal seams into cinders when they 
were in contact. Then the Abberley Hills, with their trap 
rocks; the igneous rocks at Malvern (of granulite) leptinite, 
of diorite and Syenite, upheaval and heavy faulting of the 
sequence of beds; next May Hill, with its dome formed by 
upheaval—showing no trap rocks, but enormous denudation of 
the upper Llandovery beds. 
To the S.S.W. occur the amygdaloid rocks at Damory 
Bridge, Tortworth, and an extension of the same action in the 
igneous rocks of Charfield. But the direction of the force 
deflects at Tortworth, plunges under the Severn, and re-appears 
on the N.E. coast of Ireland. 
The subject of the Upper Llandovery beds, or May Hill 
sandstone, was then dealt with, which he said were now con- 
sidered by our own and Continental Geologists as the base of 
the Upper Silurian system. Their apparent unconformity with 
the Lower Llandovery, as well as the proof from the fossil 
contents, combined to shew great lapse of time—lost pages of 
the record. 
He then referred to the rich fossil remains of the Upper 
Silurians, especially in Brachiopods. 
The President remarked it was the determination of the 
beds of the hill upon which they were standing which led to 
the unfortunate estrangement between Sir Roderick Murchison 
and Professor Sedgwick, and he thought it was a fitting place 
to read part of the touching letter by the Professor to Sir 
