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with loathing and with dread from their useless destruction, and 
from the very wantonness with which the humblest of God’s created. 
things is constantly destroyed.’ After a vote of thanks to the 
worthy President, the Meeting adjourned.—hichmond Herald. 
Tur Members of the Matvern Fierp-crius held their Annual 
Meeting for the election of Officers, the audit of accounts, &c., at 
the Museum of the Society, at Malvern, on April 5th. The Rev. 
W. S. Symonds, of Pendock, was re-elected President; Edwin Lees, 
Esq., Vice-president; and the Rev. R. Pindar Hill, Hon. Secretary. 
The places of Meeting for the ensuing season are as follows :—May 
—The Lickey Hills, near Bromsgrove. Jwne—Cleobury-Mortimer. 
July—Lower Lode, Tewkesbury. September—Birmingham, for the 
Meeting of the British Association, with a Field-meeting at Malvern 
after the British Association Meeting. The Club voted the sum of 
£10 to the President and a Committee, for the investigation of 
certain Drift Deposits in the district; and £5 to Mr. Lees for the 
opening of a tumulus in the neighbourhood of Malvern._—W. 5. 8, 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
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To the Editor of the GxoLocicaL MAGAZINE. 
Sir,—With reference to the Article in No. IX.‘ On a sudden Sink- 
ing of the Soil in a Field at Lexden in Essex,’ by the Rev. O. Fisher, 
I wish to offer a few suggestions. The sinking occurred in 1861; 
and in 1862 I visited the spot and examined it carefully. It cor- 
responds exactly with Mr. Fisher’s description with one exception, 
which may or may not be of importance in the explanation of the 
formation of this curious pit. He has omitted to state that on one 
side of the pit, the earth has not quite subsided on a level with the 
floor, but rises in a rather abrupt bank. At least it was so when I 
visited it, which was nearly a year prior to Mr. Fisher’s visit; and 
perhaps during that time alterations might have taken place, or 
some of the soil been removed. 
I here give a rough section I made immediately on my return 
home. 
Fig. 1.—Section of the Natural Pit at Lexden, in 1862. 
