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meet them, for an exploration at Eastnor, near Ledbury, on the 7th 

 of June last. The united party accordingly, numbering upwards of 

 sixty, mustered from their various localities at about 1 1 a.m., in the 

 valley of the " White-leafed Oak," which is situated between two most 

 southerly hills of the Malvern eruptive ridge, and at once proceeded 

 to the business of the day. Professor Strickland (who occupies the 

 mineralogical chair of Dr. Buckland, at Oxford) attended, by invita- 

 tion, as an Honorary Member, and now proposed to point out, to those 

 who took an interest in geological researches, the grand features of 

 the country before them, and the relations of the Silurian strata with 

 the Malvern syenilic rocks. He then led a large party to the summit 

 of the Ragged-stone Hill, and to various quarries, where metamorphic 

 rock was clearly shown, the result of the action of the eruptive rock 

 on the Silurian deposits; and descanted, also, on the remarkable beds 

 of sandstone in the Obelisk Hill, first noticed by Sir R. Murchison. 

 A most instructive morning was thus passed among the rocks and 

 glens of the southern Malvern range. 



Meantime, an ardent band of botanists, including Dr. Bull, of Here- 

 ford, Mr. W. H. Purchas, of Ross, and other Woolhopean gentlemen, 

 had placed themselves under the able direction of Mr. Edwin Lees, 

 to gain some insight intot he Botany of Malvern, attaching more value 

 to the clothing of rocks, than to the naked ribs of mother earth, 

 attended to by their friends. This party had a very interesting ram- 

 ble among the deep shades of the Holly-bush Hill, where there are 

 indigenous clumps of that tree many hundred years old, the bark 

 covered with venerable cryptogamic crust. They next explored the 

 curious and interesting rocky dingle called " The Gullet," where, 

 darkling through the entrails of the strata, amidst a luxuriant growth 

 of ferns and mosses, a burrowing stream gushes down a deep, densely- 

 wooded ravine between the Holly-bush and Swenchard Hills. The 

 botanical division next ascended to the Obelisk Hill, and closed a 

 most agreeable day by visiting the celebrated Mistletoe in the Oak^ 

 in Eastnor Park, where Dr. Bull, officiating as Arch-Druid, climbed 

 the summit of the tree, where the mistletoe flourishes in great force, 

 and gathering some branches of the mystic plant, distributed them to 

 his friends beneath, as mementoes of the expedition. 



Late in the afternoon, the parties united at dinner at the Somer's- 

 arms Inn, where Barwick Baker, Esq., President of the Cotteswold 

 Club, filled the chair ; and the Revs. T. T. Lewis, of Aymestry, and 

 W. S. Symonds, Rector of Pendock, Presidents of the Woolhope and 

 Malvern Clubs, occupied the opposite end of the table. After the 



