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Mr St. Clair Baddeley exhibited a very fine sepcimen of a celt, the property 

 of Mr T. D. Grimke-Drayton, found some years ago near the River Conway 

 in North Wales. 



Mr Charles Bailey exhibited French specimens of Hypericum desestrangsii 

 Lamotte, a St. John's-wort, which Mr E. C. Salman has found growing at 

 Lewes, in Sussex. This species has also occurred at Richmond, in Yorkshire, 

 and Mr Bailey said local botanists should keep a look-out for^jfts appearance 

 on the Cotteswolds. 



Mr Charles Upton exhibited specimens of the fresh- water shell Amphi- 

 peplea glutinosa (Muller) from Chalford — a new record for the County and a 

 species not hitherto recorded from the West of England. 



The following communications were made : — 



I. — " Notes on Moreton-in-Marsh," by T. S. Ellis. 



2. — " On a New Species of Char a and its Influence on our Water Supply," 

 by G. Embrey, F.I.C., F.C.S., County Analyst. 



Mr Ellis said in connection with the name Moreton-in-Marsh that he 

 rejected the idea that " marsh " was a corruption of " march " or " mark," 

 a boundary, and cited historical evidence to prove that the old name was 

 Moreton (orMereton) Hen-marsh. There was, he said, no inherent improba- 

 bility of a marsh : on the contrary, the town is in just such a place as marshes 

 commonly appear, i.e., on the divide between two streams flowing in opposite 

 directions — the Evenlode flowing southwards, and tributaries of the Stour 

 flowing northward. Authorities teach us, he continued, that where, as at 

 Moreton, two streams flow in opposite directions from what Mackintosh calls 

 " the culminating area of a pass," a marsh is to be explained by supposing 

 that these two streams are working backwards towards each other, and that 

 sooner or later they will meet ; in other words, that it indicates a continuity 

 of water for the far distant future. From this view Mr Ellis entirely dis- 

 sents : his view is that it indicates a continuity of water in the far distant 

 past. 



. Mr St. Clair Baddeley said that with regard to the name, the earliest 

 evidence he had found went back to 1236. The sufifiix, prior to the 13th 

 century, was Henmersche, Hennemers, Henmerse, Enmerse. In 1482 

 Morton-in-Henmerssh occurs. Hendred in Berkshire means Henril, a place 

 where wild fowl were found. In Domesday Book Moreton appeared as a 

 manor. The speaker pointed out that in near proximity to Moreton-in-the- 

 Marsh were places named in much the same way — Bourton-on-the- Water, 

 Bourton-on-the-Hill, Stow-on-the-Wold — and hence it might have happened 

 that a sympathetic affinity of nomenclature was set up. The " the " was 

 assumed in later times. 



Mr Roland Austin, Librarian of the Gloucester Public Library, quoted 

 the spelling of the name as given in a number of maps and documents, all 

 being something like " Henmershe." The oldest map of the county, published 

 in 1577, with the authority of Queen Elizabeth, gives the name as Moreton 

 Henmershe. 



With reference to the claim that the name means Moreton-in -March, 

 i.e., Moreton-on-the-mark, or boundary, Mr John Sawyer stated that the 

 singular fact came to light when an Ordnance Survey index-map of the county 

 was published a few years ago, that throughout almost all its length in 

 Gloucestershire the Foss Way is a parochial boundary, and Moreton is on one 

 side bounded by that famous road. Further, no other road in the county. 



