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"I hope to get you to stir up some of our colleagues in the 

 Cotteswold Club to work out, and confirm or negative my crude 

 notions. If any one does, the trial should be made with stone fresh 

 from the quarries of Bisley, Minchinhampton, Leckhampton, 

 and Painswick; and of the two very different stones, both of 

 which are *Bath stones,' — one hard and durable, the other soft 

 and perishable, — yet both are sold as the same; the softer 

 more often, because the contractor works it more easily." 



These points should be cleared up and made public, and Mr. 

 Hyett offers to co-operate with' any member of the Cotteswold 

 Club who is disposed to follow up the enquiiy. I consider the 

 foregoing notes by Mr. Hyett of great interest, and calculated 

 to form the basis of a series of experiments, which, if carefully 

 carried out, may be made productive of most useftd results. 



The Second Field Meeting took place on Wednesday, 13th of 

 May, the fixtvire being May Hill. This was a joint meeting of 

 the Cotteswold and Malvern Tield Clubs. The party proceeded 

 from Gloucester on wheels, visiting by the way the Pinetum at 

 Highnam, and the !N"ew Church at Huntley — the former affording 

 a rare treat to the lover of the beautiful in nature — the latter 

 not less interesting to the admirers of ecclesiastical art and 

 decoration. 



At Huntley the party was hospitably entertained at luncheon 

 by Major Probyn ; after which they proceeded to the summit of 

 May Hill, from which commanding elevation the Eev. W. S. 

 Symonds, President of the Malvern Club, delivered an instructive 

 address on the Geology of the complicated district which, in a 

 panorama of unequalled beauty and extent, lay spread around 

 the observers. Commencing with the primseval history of the 

 Malverns, he shewed how their plutonic masses have been thrust 

 through the overlying Silurian strata ; how the prolongation of 

 their axis of disturbance has brought the Llandovery Rock to 

 the summit of May Hill, while throwing off the overlying 

 Silvuians and Old Red on the flanks like the coats of an onion ; 

 how the prolongation of this line of up-thi'ust, passing under 

 Tortworth and the Bristol Coal-field, is traceable over an extensive 

 area, giving rise to a series of dislocations and up-heavals, most 



