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as well as some patches in Scotland, near Elgin and at Skye. At 
all events, these remnants of Lias, now separated from the main 
mass in Shropshire, Staffordshire, and Cumberland, are well worthy 
of notice, presenting many features of interest, and deserving a care- 
ful and detailed examination. 
The Meeting then adjourned. Owing to the sever ity of the 
weather, there was not so good an aitroadlnace as usual, though about 
forty persons were present, including some of the Dudley Field-club 
and several ladies, who were especially invited on this occasion. The 
interval between this time and dinner was filled up by (Ist) an in- 
spection of the Museum, which has been lately renovated and enlarged, 
many important additions having been made to the excellent Geolo- 
gical and Zoological collections; and (2ndly) by a walk to the Lower 
Keuper quarries at Coten-end. All matters of business were trans- 
acted after dinner, when the President and Vice-president were . 
unanimously re-elected, and the Meetings fixed for the ensuing 
summer. 
Tue Cotreswo.pD NATURALISTS’ FIrELD-cLUB held its Nineteenth 
Annual Meeting at the Bell Hotel, Gloucester, on the 29th March. 
Major Guise was re-elected President, and Dr. Parne Secretary. 
The Meetings for the Season are—Stroud, 24th May; Chepstow, 
21st June ; Br adford Abbas, 19th July; TYortworth, 16th August ; 
Beckford, 27th September. 
The President read the Annual Address, which gave an excellent 
epitome of the work done by the Club during the past year. He 
then read a translation, by Mr. John Jones, of Dr. Epouarp 
Dueont’s Report to the Minister of the Interior at Brussels, on the 
Scientific Excavations made in the Province of Namur during 
the year 1864. This able document contained some interesting 
‘statements relative to the Bone-caves of the Province of Namur, 
which had formed the subject of Dr. Dupont’s special study. ‘The 
species of Mammals had been determined by M. Van Beneden. He 
found different parts of the skeleton of the Reindeer, and 150 
antlers of this species; most of them had been broken by the vio- 
lence of the water, which had brought boulders into the cavern; but 
many were well preserved. Bones of the Glutton, Bear, Chamois, 
Elk, Stag, Fox, Wolf, Horse, Ox (Bos primigenius), Ibex, Field- 
mouse, and ‘le Coq de bruyéres,’ with fifteen other species, were 
found in these caverns. A number of the remains of human industry 
have been exhumed from amongst this ancient fauna, so foreign 
to the actual condition of the province; these consisting of worked 
flint implements of different kinds, and bones rudely carved, and 
formed into tools of various kinds. Other caverns contained the 
bones of ancient human races. All these relies will form the sub- 
ject of a special memoir. 
After a capital dinner, at five o'clock, M. Erurripes, F.G.S., 
Palzontologist to the Geological Survey, read an interesting paper 
On the Avicula-contorta-beds at Garden Cliff, near Westbury-on- 
Severn, which he illustrated by some beautiful sections made by 
