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Llandovery strata which overlie unconformably the Primordial rocks 
just noticed ; after which the several faults in the district were de- 
scribed in detail. Dr. Holl concluded with some remarks on the 
general relations of the rocks of the Malvern Hills with those of the 
surrounding districts, describing the successive physical changes 
supposed to have been consequent upon their deposition and their 
subsequent elevations and depressions. 
THe SEVERN VALLEY Friev_p-cuvus held their first meeting for the 
present season on 26th May, at Benthall Edge. An address was 
delivered by the Rev. W. Purton (one of the Vice-Presidents of the 
Club), upon the geological characteristics of the district. He de- 
scribed the various physical changes which had taken place from the 
deposition of the oldest Paleozoic strata to the period of the Glacial 
drift, and the erosion of the Valley of the Severn. They next pro- 
ceeded to Benthall Hall, the seat of G. Maw, Esq., F.G.S., where 
the members and their friends, upwards of sixty in number, partook 
of luncheon. A large collection of flint and stone implements, from 
France, Denmark, and Switzerland, and many British localities 
(lent for the occasion by Messrs. John Lubbock, Evans, Christy, 
Tyndall, Wyatt, and others), were exhibited, and excited great 
interest. ‘The Rev. A. T. Bonner (H. M. Inspector of Schools), gave 
an explanatory lecture upon the collection, recapitulating the evi- 
dence derived from the Drift-gravels, the Danish Peat-mosses, and 
the Swiss Lake-dwellings. The President described the Peri- 
gord caves explored by MM. Christy and Lartet. The Rev. T. 
Rage considered that these weapons might have been in use ata less 
remote period than was generally supposed. Mr. J. Maw, sen., 
defended the antiquity of these interesting relics. The members 
next visited the gravel-beds near the Severn Valley Railway [de- 
scribed by Mr. George Maw, F.G.S., Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 
1864, p. 181], on their way to Buildwas, where the Rev. W. H. 
Wayne read an interesting paper on the Abbey. From Buildwas 
the party adjourned to Severn House, the residence of the Presi- 
dent, where tea was prepared. Soon after the meeting separated.— 
Eddowe’s Shrewsbury Journal, June 1, 1864. 
THE annual meeting of the DupLEY AND MipLtanp GEOLOGICAL 
Society anpD Fienp-cLius was held on Tuesday, May 24th. The 
Right Honourable the Earl of Dudley was elected President of the 
Society for the ensuing year, Mr. E. Hollier Hon. Curator, and Mr. 
John Jones Secretary. The columnar basalt of Rowley was visited 
during the day by the members of the club.—Colliery Guardian, 
May 28, 1864. 
BERWICKSHIRE NaturA.ists’ Cius.—This club held a meeting 
at Greenlaw on the 26th May. After breakfast, the members pro- 
ceeded to inspect the remarkable ‘kaims’ at Bedshiel, about the 
formation of which there has been considerable diversity of opinion.* 
* See the Report of the British Assoc., 1861, Rep. Sect. p. 115, for Mr. Milne- 
Home’s views of their having been formed of marine shingle when the land was at 
a lower level than it is at present.—Epir. 
