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■Warwickshire Naturalists' and Arcbueologists' Field-club. 

 — The Annual Winter Meeting of this Club was held in the Warwick 

 Museum on February 26th, 1866.— The President, W. Martin, Esq., 

 M.P., delivered an address chiefly devoted to Archaeology ; he espe- 

 cially dwelt upon the recent discoveries of flint implements in Post- 

 Tertiary deposits, with an account also of Lake dwellings. 



The Kev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., F.G.S., Vice-President, next read a 

 paper " On the Drift of Warwickshire, and on the evidence of glacial 

 action exhibited." He described the gravels and clays along the 

 valley of the Avon, with mammalian remains, and an extensive de- 

 posit of drift of all ages largely scattered over a considerable tract of 

 the county around Warwick. His discovery of quartzose pebbles in 

 this drift containing Lower Silurian fossils similar to those discovered 

 in the New Red Sandstone at Budleigh Salterton,^ was particularly 

 interesting and formed the chief point of the discussion which fol- 

 lowed. 



Mr. Whittem then read a paper '' On the Drift in the neighbour- 

 hood of Coventry," and Mr. Startin described the drift in the vicinity 

 of Exhall, both of whom confirmed Mr. Brodie's statement of the 

 evidence which these superficial deposits afford of the action of ice 

 at the period when the gravels were deposited. Mr. Brodie then 

 read a paper " On the Fossils of the New Eed Sandstone of Warwick- 

 shire," and in illustration drew attention to the fine collection of 

 Labyrinthodont remains in the Warwick Museum. Mr. Startin read 

 a paper on the same formation near Coventry. After which Mr. 

 Brodie gave a viva voce explanation of the quartzites in Normandy, 

 with their remarkable fossils, the deposit whence the pebbles in the 

 New Eed Sandstone of Budleigh Salterton are supposed to have 

 been derived. — P. B. B. 



Warwickshire Natural History Society. — On April 8th the 

 Annual Meeting was held at the Warwick Museum. Officers for the 

 ensuing year were elected. The Rev. P. B. Brodie read a paper "On 

 the Geology of a part of Warwickshire." He described the Drift, 

 Lias, New Red Sandstone, and Permian formations, with their cha- 

 racteristic fossils, illustrated by their extensive local collection. Mr. R. 

 F. Tomes, F.Z.S., communicated a notice of the discovery of human 

 remains at Milcote, near Stratford-on-Avon, which he considered to 

 be of great antiquity, probably Saxons, destroyed by an incursion of 

 the Danes, referred to by Dugdale. Mr. Fetherston briefly described 

 some Roman pottery, found in the same neighbourhood. 



After an animated discussion on the several papers, the meeting 

 was adjourned. — P.B.B. 



North London Naturalists' Club. — April 12th, 1866. — Mr. W. 

 Hislop, F.R.A.S., Treasurer, in the Chair. — Mr. W. Carruthers, 

 F.L.S., read a paper " On the Vegetation of the Coal Period." He 



'' See paper by Mr. W. Vicary, F.G.S., with descriptions of the fossils by Mr. Salter, 

 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc, vol. xx., 1864, p. 283 ; also Geol. Mag., Vol. I. p. 5. 



