filled by Mr. Ltjcy. The officers for the ensuing year were 

 chosen, when you again did me the honour to testify your 

 confidence in me by again electing me your President ; and Dr. 

 Paine was again chosen Secretary. 



After the conclusion of the official business, some of the party, 

 under the guidance of Mr. Lysons, proceeded to visit a spot 

 in the parish of Lassington, where there are evidences of the 

 presence of Roman Remains, — some Tesserce having been brought 

 to the surface, and the outline of buildings being discernible. 

 This may affi)rd subject for investigation at some future time. 

 The party, about thirty in number, sat down to dinner at the 

 Bell Hotel. 



After dinner the President read a paper by Professor Buckman, 

 on the " Rat-tailed Radish," {Raphanus caudatus,) recently 

 introduced from Java, which Professor Btjckman gave reasons 

 for believing to be only a long-podded variety of our Garden 

 Radish. Tastes differ in respect of its excellence as an article 

 of food ; but the Professor has no doubts at all upon the subject, 

 pronouncing it " simply nasty." 



Some notes by Mr. John Jones were read on the origin of 

 the word " Crupets," or " Crippetts," the name of a farmhouse, 

 in the parish of Shurdington. Tliis Mr. Jones endeavoured to 

 shew is the modernised name of the family of " De Crupet," 

 " Croupe," or " Crupes," to whom the place formerly belonged. 

 This family Mr. Jones identifies vpith a Belgian or Walloon 

 honse of the same name, " De Crupet," who were formerly 

 Lords of the Commune of Crupet, near the town and in the 

 province of Namur. Their arms, six Mascles, Gules, and a label 

 Azure, are to be seen on a knightly effigy in Whittington 

 Church, in this county. 



Mr. LucT exhibited two Fossils, believed to be eggs of the 

 " Teleosaurus," given to him by Mr. Joshua Beown, residing 

 near Cirencester. Mr. Lucy mentioned his having recently 

 made an excursion in the Cotteswolds, round Stow and Burford, 

 and called attention to the gradual thinning out of the beds in 

 a northerly direction. On the authority of Mr. Hull's Memoirs, 

 to illustrate Map 44 Geological Survey, he stated, that while at 

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