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on this subject, and I have to report that it is probable we shall 

 be asked to join other clubs in petitioning Parliament in the 

 course of the present month. 



Mr. NiBLETT exhibited a Roman horse-shoe in beautiful 

 preservation ; it had evidently never been in use, found five feet 

 below the present Roman pavement of Gloucester, from which 

 fact Mr. Ltsons was disposed to attribute to it an antiquity- 

 prior to the date of the Roman occupation. This horse-shoe 

 has been figured by Mr. Fleming in his beautiful and exhaustive 

 book on " Horse-shoes and Horse-shoeing." Mr. Fleming gives 

 it as Roman. 



Wednesday, 17th August. — The Club was summoned to meet at 

 MORETON-IN-MARSH, 



where a j)rogramme extending over two days and embracing 

 visits to several points of interest failed to attract a single 

 member, and Mr. Lucy, who, in the absence of the Secretary, 

 went prepared to act as guide over ground to which his lately 

 j)ublished paper on Gravels and Drifts has given a sj)ecial 

 importance, found himself absolutely alone. This should not 

 have been. The locality is no doubt inconveniently placed as 

 regards communication, which rendered it almost impracticable 

 to accomplish any useful result without breaking into a second 

 day. This, doubtless, was deterrent to many ; still, as the Club 

 had appointed the place of meeting, it is much to be regretted 

 that none could be found to support the Vice-President on this 

 occasion, the first since I have had the honour of presiding over 

 the Club when such an occurrence has to be registered. 



It will be well to bear in mind that, having regard to the 

 limits of the county within which we carry on our operations, it 

 every year becomes more difficult to offer the attraction of novelty 

 in the locaHties selected as places of meeting — and with a view 

 to obtaining such a stimulus we are constrained to avail ourselves 

 of the utmost limits our boundary will admit of. Occasionally 

 some of the meets may be appointed at places which involve a 

 little trouble to reach, but I would urge that members should 



