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Sir Thomas for New Zealand,* Professor James Buckman was 

 elected. The first volume of the " Proceedings of the Cottes- 

 wold Naturalists' Club" was published in 1853. The papers 

 by T. P. Wright, Esq., M.D., John Lycett, Esq., the Rev. P. B. 

 Brodie, F.G.S., Professor James Buckman, and W. Hyett, Esq., 

 are well known in the scientific world, ti The Woolhope," the 

 Herefordshire Naturalists' Field Club, was founded on the 

 principle of the Cotteswold Society, in 1851, by the late 

 Mackay Scobie, Esq., and the Rev. W. S. Symonds. Its progress 

 has been steady and uninterrupted, and the members are doing- 

 much towards developing the geology and botany of their dis- 

 trict ; they are limited to fifty, and the list is full. A set of 

 meteorological instruments have been purchased, and placed under 

 the superintendence of Mr Hewett Wheatley. Their first volume 

 of " Transactions" will be printed in June. The following gen- 

 tlemen have filled the office of president : — 1 852, T. M. Lingwood, 

 Esq., F.G.S., F.L.S. ; 1853, The Rev. T. T. Lewis, the well-known 

 Silurian geologist ; 1854, The Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S. The 

 president for 1855 is the Rev. J. F. Crouch, F.L.S., late Fellow of 

 Baliol College, Oxford. 



The Malvern Naturalists' Field Club was established in 1852, 

 and also consists of fifty members. The Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S. , 

 has been president since the formation of the Club ; the vice-pre- 

 sident, the Rev. F. Dyson, and the honorary secretary, Mr W. 

 Burrow, have also been re-elected. A local museum is being 

 formed under the auspices of the members, at the house of the 

 honorary secretary, and to which strangers visiting Malvern will 

 be allowed access. The Club possesses a very fine collection of 

 Malvern Silurian fossils. The " Transactions of the Malvern 

 Club" will be published in June, when a great general meeting 

 of the members of the three Clubs, joined by the members and 

 council of the Natural History Society of Worcester, will be held 

 at Malvern — Sir Roderick Murchison has promised to be in the 

 Chair. 



The Warwickshire Club, on the same principle, is just com- 

 mencing wo7-k. President, the Rev. P. B. Brodie, distinguished 

 by his work on Fossil Insects. The honorary secretary is the 

 author of" Chronicles of a Clay Farm," Chandos Wren Hoskyns, 

 Esq. 



We hail, in the establishment of these societies, an extended 

 knowledge in the local natural history of their counties, and 

 heartily wish them success. It surely becomes an important 

 feature in scientific history, when we find from 150 to 200 edu- 

 cated men engaged in such pursuits. 



* Sir Thomas has just returned, and will, no douht resume his usefulness. 



