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hospitality courteously offered by Mrs Cook and her 

 daughters, and then drove to Lydney for the train. 



Our Winter Meetings have been particularly well 

 attended, and the interesting series of papers which has 

 been read shows that the working activities of the Club 

 are in a vigorous condition. To accommodate the papers 

 it was necessary to hold an extra meeting besides the four 

 which have hitherto been our limit. I give a list of the 

 communications, which show that there is a wide field to 

 which the Club can devote work. 



The Recently Enclosed Common Fields at Upton St. 



Leonards, by the Rev. Canon Scobell. 

 How Nature Discards : a study of Relics and Make- 

 shifts, by S. S. Buckman, F.G.S. 

 The Pyrenees and the Republic of Andorra, by 



William Bellows. 

 The Birds of Gloucestershire, by W. L. Mellersh, 



xM.A. 

 A Mimicry of Organic Structure in a Silurian Lime- 

 stone at Old Radnor, by C. Callaway, M.A., D.Sc. 

 Incrusting Organisms, by E. B. Wethered, F.G.S. 

 A Submerged Forest at Westbury-on-Severn, by E. W. 

 Prevost, Ph.D., F.R.S.E. 



Part IL— A Visit to Robben Island— The Leper 

 Settlement 



A few years ago I happened to be at Cape Town, and 

 went out one afternoon to call on the Bishop, who lives at 

 a most charming old Dutch house some miles away. At 

 one part of the road I well remember an avenue of giant 

 pines, vividly illustrative of the idea that is said to have 

 given birth to Gothic architecture. These pines lined the 

 road on either side at regular intervals, their stems rising 



