244 

 Wednesday, 15th June. — The Club met at 

 EOSS. 



The day was all that could be desired, and except that the time 

 was too lim.ited to permit the entire programme to be carried 

 out, no excursion could have been devised more interesting to 

 the lover of the picturesque or the student of geological science. 

 On the arrival of the party at Ross, a brake was in waiting which 

 conveyed them to Huntsholme. Crossing the peninsula and the 

 ferry they climbed to the summit of Symond's Tat, the fine 

 prospect from whence is well known. Here the Rev. Mr. 

 Symonds, President of the Malvern Field Club, in a lucid and 

 well-arranged address, gave a sketch of the compUcated 

 geological problems comprehended in the wide expanse of 

 country which the eye takes in from that exalted station. 



Beginning with the distant range of the Malverns he carried 

 his auditors through the " Silurians " of the May Hill of Fown- 

 hope and Woolhope; over the "Old Red" of Herefordshire, 

 ten thousand feet in thickness, held by many geologists to 

 represent vast fresh-water lakes similar to those covering such 

 extensive tracts in North America. Here he pointed out how 

 the uppermost " Old Red " beds on the opposite side of the Wye 

 dip down underneath the Carboniferous Limestones of Symond's 

 Yat and the Doward, and re-appear again in a vast "synclinal" 

 above Monmouth. Thence he led them to the coal-fields of 

 South Wales and of the Forest of Dean, shewing how these had 

 been brought up and made serviceable for man by elevating 

 forces, while other forces of an eroding and denuding character 

 had swept away whole provinces of a like nature, which had 

 once overlain by a thousand feet the present valleys and uplands 

 of the " Old Red " country. The lecturer concluded an address, 

 which was loudly cheered, by a few pertinent references to the 

 gravels on the sides of the hills, in which lie entombed the 

 bones of the Mammoth, the Rhinoceros, and the Hippopotamus, 

 who were the undoubted contemj)oraries of man in those remote 

 epochs when arctic and glacial conditions still prevailed in 

 Europe. 



