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becomes detached, and is capable of a brief independent existence, 

 with power of locomotion, having been formerly supposed to be a 

 parasite, and described as such under the name of Hectocotylus. 

 Fourthly, there was the case of man, which perhaps presented the 

 greatest difficulty of all in the way of the Natural Selection theory, 

 which Mr. Buckle had dwelt upon in his paper, and which could 

 not be got over in the present state of our knowledge, without 

 assuming some controlling intelligence to which all other influences 

 must be subordinated. 



The Rev. H. H. WiNWOODthen followed with some "Notes on the 

 Rhcetic Section, Newbridge Hill," illustrated by photographs, and 

 specimens of the fossils he had collected from these beds. The 

 notes are printed in full in the present No. of Proceedings (p. 204) ; 

 as also are the valuable Remarks on the Somersetshire Census of 

 1861, by Dr. Hunter (p. 211), with which the evening was concluded. 



EXCUBSIONS. 



Coming now to perhaps the more popular part of the Club's 

 proceedings, the four excursions have all been cai-ried out with the 

 exception of that fixed for Lymington, which was changed at 

 one of the quarterly meetings for an exciirsion nearer home. The 

 first took place on May 3i-d, to Evesham Abbey and Gloucester 

 Cathedral. Leaving Bath by an early train from the Midland 

 Station, the members to the number of thirteen, with two visitors, 

 reached Evesham about 10 a.m., after a pleasant run through a 

 country abounding in orchards in full blossom. 



Evesham has much historical interest attached to it, as well as 

 some interesting antiquarian remains, and has, therefore, been 

 visited in past years by the Archaeological Institute of Great 

 Britain and Ireland, as well as by the Cotteswold Field Club, and 

 particular notice taken of its remains ; its history has also been 

 written by more than one author, and the pages of the A rclueologia 

 contain accounts of reliques which have been discovered in the 

 cemetery of the Abbey, and also of ancient seals which belonged to 

 it. (See Archceologia, vol. xvii., 278 ; xix., 66 ; xx., 566 ; and the 

 History of Evesham by Tindale, also by May, 1845 ; see also 

 Nash's History of Worcestershire, vol. i, p. 396, and Dingley's 

 History from Marble, vol. ii., p. cckxiii., published by the Camden 



