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SEVERN VALLEY NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB.— The first meeting 

 of the Chih this year was hehl at Great Malvern, the visit lasting; from Tuesday 

 to Friilay, June llh to 7th. On the first day visits were made to the quarries 

 anil sections of the North Hill. In the eveuiug papers were read by Mr. 

 F. Day, of Ch"ltenhaiu, on " Pish Life ;" and the liev. W. S. Syriiouils, of 

 Pendock, on " Some of the historical associations around the Malvern Hills." 

 Wednesday, June 5th, the party, joined by members of the Malvern, Wooihope, 

 and Cotteswold Field Clubs, drove to the Herefordshire Beacon and Eastnor. 

 A walk of seven miles, commencing at Wind's Point, was undertaken under the 

 pnidance of Mr. Symonds. Tlie route was by way of the Great Camp and 

 Hermit's Cave to the Camp on iliiisummer Hill, thence by the quarry of Green- 

 stone and Diorite in the Holly Bush Pass, by the valley of the white-leaved oak 

 and a series of quarries to the Somers' Arms Inn, Eastnor, from whence the 

 party drove back to Malvern. In the evening Dr. Thos. Wright, F.K.S.E., of 

 Cheltenham, commenceil an address on the Palaeontology of the ^lalvern Hills, 

 and Mr. G. W. Hastings described the structure of the hills. Gn Thursday, 

 June 6th, a visit was first paid to Dr. Grindrod's fine collection of Silurian 

 fossils, &c. Afterwards tlie party went by train to Stoke Edith, and M>-. Symonds 

 again acting as guide led the way through the Pai'k to Seager Hill, from which 

 there is a fine view of the Wooihope Valley. Mr. Symonds de.'^ciibed the 

 remarkable geological features of the district. The quarries at Dorminglou 

 were next visited. After tea at the Foley Arms, Tarrington, in the room where 

 Sir Kiiderick Murchison wrote t'reat part of his " Siluria," the party returned to 

 Malvern, where Dr. Wright finished his address on the Palieontology of the 

 district, and Mr. Symonds narr.ited the weird legend of the " Shadow of the 

 Rugged Stone." On Friday the party dispersed, after a most enjoyable 

 meeting. 



WARWICKSHIRE FIELD CLUB.— At a recent meeting, Mr. Andrews 

 read a paper, of which the following is an abstract: — " Many years ago I made a 

 commencement to e.xamine the glacial or drift formation in the neitjhbourhood 

 of Coventry, and collected a great number of specimens, but I was not able to 

 continue the investigation. Recently, however, I have returned to the subject, 

 and having studied most of the works on the question which have appeared 

 during the lust few years, I became convinced that it was quite hopeless to make 

 any systematic e.xnmination of these f irmations without a nuich better 

 knowledge of the topoj,'raphy of the district than we at present possess. I 

 therefore resolved to make a new survey of the county, or if that were not 

 po-iSible, at least of the whole of the district round the city of Coventry, and the 

 map now shown is the first instalment of the work. The method adopted in 

 making the survey was very simple, viz., by collecting all the published informa- 

 tion that I could (IS to the altitudes that have been measured, such as the various 

 Ordnance bench marks, the levels of the various canals, railways, itc, by using 

 this information as a basis for the survey, and finally by walking over the 

 district, and e.xamining the altitudes by means of an aneroid barometer, and 

 sketching the contour lines on the snot. I have tinted the map with a series of 

 tints in Indian ink, on the principle that if the waters of the ocean were 200 feet 

 above their present level, they would exactly occupy the space covered on the 

 map by the deepest shade, and which is indicated by the figures, 100, 200. If 

 the waters were .SoO feet above their present level, they would also occupy the 

 epace covered by the next paler shade which is indicated by the liuures, 200, 300, 

 and so on. The district covered by my survey, up to the present moment. 

 (December, 1877,) extends from Hinckley on the north, to Harbury Railway 

 Station on the south, and from Branston on the east, to Knowle on the west, 

 and consequently includes about half of Warwickshire." The map is now placed 

 in the Reading Room of the Free Library, Coventiy. 



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