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and varied organizations. They also passed the several bands of 
felspathic ash, and joined the straggling remains of the general party 
at the New Inn, Glyn Ceiriog. The majority of the members, after 
partaking of luncheon at Llangollen, returned home; but not a few 
made this the starting point for a tour in North Wales.—J. J. 
THE second meeting of the members of the CorreswoLp Natvu- 
RAListTs’ FIELD-cLUB took place at the Speech-House, in the Forest 
of Dean, on Friday, the 24th of June. After breakfasting at 
Mitcheldean, and looking at the fine old church there, the members 
proceeded to Drybrook, to examine the section of the transition-beds 
of the Old Red Sandstone and Carboniferous Limestone, which was 
worked at some time since by Messrs. John Jones and W. C. Lucy. 
The section was found accurate; indeed, so carefully has the work 
been done that no less than 150 divisions were made; and a strong 
desire was expressed that it should be published in the Transactions 
of the Club, as the bank on either side will soon be covered with 
grass. During the walk to the Speech-House, the Rev. W. S. 
Symonds explained in a very lucid manner the position of the 
various beds of the Mountain-limestone and Coai-measures which 
were seen or passed over during the excursion. After dinner, Dr. 
Bird, of Cheltenham, who had resided in the forest for some years, 
read an interesting paper on the local History, Geology, and Botany 
of the district.—W. C. L. 
Royau Society, Thursday, 9th June, 1864.—The reading and 
discussion of Professor Owen’s first paper ‘On the Cave of Bruni- 
quel’ occupied the entire evening. This cave is situated on the es- 
tate of the Vicomte de Lastic, in a limestone cliff, on the north side 
of the valley of the Aveyron, Dep. Tarne et Garonne, in the south- 
west of France. A collection of the remains found in this cavern 
having been offered to the Trastees of the British Museum by the 
Vicomte, Professor Owen visited the spot and reported on the con- 
tents already exhumed. ‘The Trustees immediately decided upon the 
purchase of the collection offered, which was at once secured and 
brought away, and now forms a part of the National Museum. The 
collection comprises pieces of bones with rude carvings of heads of 
the horse and reindeer upon their surface, numberless weapons of 
bone and horn, flint flakes (of the pattern which occurs in nearly all 
the caverns of this period in Centrai and Southern France) thousands 
of remains of reindeer and other animals—extinct or partially extinct 
—(the bones indicating by their fractured condition that they had all 
been broken to obtain the marrow, and the horns cut to form weapons), 
and lastly, portions of ten human* skulls, the jaw of a child about 
five years of age, and the remains of an infant. These human re- 
mains, Professor Owen considers, were interred in the breccia of the 
cavern, before its consolidation by the stalagmite, when it consisted 
of dry loose earth mixed with bones, &c. From the absence of pottery, 
and from the nature of the animals found associated with the works 
* Of the Preeceltic type; one dolichocephalic. 
