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The members after expressing their 

 thanks in the usual manner, proceeded to 

 view the collection of objects. 



Mr. "W. Winter exhibited his collection 

 of insects consisting of several well filled 

 cases of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. 



Mr. J. Percy exhibited a case of Butter- 

 flieg, including the Queen of Spain Fritil- 

 lary, Argynnis Lathonia, l&tely captured by 

 himself, 



Mr. W. Lumb exhibited a case of Lepi- 

 doptera. 



Mr. T. E, Gunn exhibited three cases of 

 Lepidoptera, comprising three divisions, 

 the Diurni, Nocturni, and Geometry ; and 

 also a case of Coleoptera. 



The principal part of the above are Nor- 

 folk specimens collected or reared b} the 

 exhibitors. 



Mr. Winter also exhibited a collection 

 of British mosses, comprising nearly the 

 whole of the species known to inhabit 

 Britain. 



After a vote of thauks to the various 

 exhibitors the meeting adjourned. 



There was a full attendance including a 

 few visitors. — T. E. Gunn, Hon. Sec. 



Norwich, Nov. 1865. 



Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists' 

 Field Club. — First excursion, Haughmond 

 Abbey, June 1st. The members met at 

 the Shrewsbury Station at ten o'clock, 

 when, after inspecting the various objects 

 of interest brought from Wroxeter, they 

 walked on to Haughmond Abbey. These 

 beautiful ruins were carefully explored 

 with the aid of the plan drawn up by the 

 British Archaeological Society upon the 

 occasion of their visit to Shrewsbury, and 

 kindly lent to the secretary by Dr. Henry 

 Johnson. The Chapter-house, which is 

 the part of the Abbey in best preservation, 

 was especially admired. It presents in front 

 three beautiful Norman arches, a feature 

 of not unfrequent occurrence in the Chapter- 

 houses of other early Abbeys. Haughmond 

 Abbey was a monastery of the order of 

 St. Augustine, and was founded in the 

 year 1109, by William Fitz-Allen. Leland 



says that a chapel stood there before the 

 abbey was built, and also that a hermitage 

 stood within the site of the present abbey. 

 Two old tombstones of the twelfth century- 

 are still preserved within, or close to the 

 site of the ancient church, which has en- 

 tirely perished. The inscriptions on these 

 stones are in very singular Norman French, 

 of which the following is a copy : — 



' 'Isabel - de - Mor - r - sa - femme- acost - 

 de - 1 - dew - de - lur - alme - merci - Amen. " 



"Wous - ki - passez - par - ici ■ pries - 

 pur - lalme - John - Fis - Alein - kight - 

 ici - dew - de-sa - alme - eit - merci - Amen.' 



There is little to record geologically. The 

 walk lay for the most part over the Permian 

 strata, tiaiighmond Hill consists in its 

 central portion of a mass of unstratified green- 

 stone, very hard, and quarried where the 

 Newport road gains the crest of the hill, 

 for road metal, for which it is well adapted. 

 The greenstone is well exposed in this 

 quarry, and it may be traced along the 

 summit of the hill to the abrupt termina- 

 tion of the latter on which the sham castle 

 stands ; while on either side may be traced 

 the dark purple Cambrian grit and con- 

 glomerate through which it has protruded 

 along the whole length of the hill. These 

 rocks are well exposed near the abbey. 

 The party crossed the Severn by the Uffing- 

 ton ferry to Shrewsbury. After dinner, 

 the president (P. G. Jebb, Esq. , the Lyth, 

 EUesmere, ) gave a very interesting descrip- 

 tion of a very ancient shield found on Bag- 

 ley Moor, and supposed to be at least 2000 

 years old. Mr. J. Parrott (Llantysillio) 

 showed some good specimens of Trilobites, 

 from the neigbourhood of Llangollen. The 

 secretary showed a very nice specimen of 

 Pecteyi brought from Monte Mario (Crag), 

 near Eome. The Eev. D. P. Lewis had 

 promised to read a paper at this meeting 

 but was unavoidably detained at home by 

 parochial duties. 



The second meeting for the season 

 was held at Llynclys on the 13th of 

 July, when the members spent the first 

 hour in examining the shores of the Pool. 



