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THE GEOLOGIST, 



Upper Old Red sandstone of Scotland. Portions of HoloptychiiLs and Ptericfithjs 

 had been found by Dr. Melville, Mr. Lightbody, and Mr. Roberts, in the yellow 

 sandstone of Farlow, near Ledbury Mortimer, and " Old Red " plants have been 

 found by Mr. Symonds in the same passage-beds, on the Daren, near Crickhowell. 

 Good specimens of Permian plants have been found near Kidderminster, by Mr, 



G, Roberts, some of which are in the Worcester Museum. 



An important discovery has also been made by the widow of the late lamented 

 Hugh K." Strickland. 



The mammalian remains found by Mr. Strickland in the Cropthorne and Avon 

 drift and gravels were imbedded in a silt containing fresh-water shells, such as 

 Limnsea, Bythinia, and of species now living in the adjacent river. The remains 

 consist of the teeth and bones of rhinoceros, elephant, deer, bos, horse, &c. 



Among these is a fine head of Bos prirnigenius, from the interior of which Mrs, 

 Strickland obtained a perfect marine shell (Tiinitella). The discovery of this 

 shell is of great consequence to the naturalist, inasmuch as he cannot avoid the 

 conclusion that this relic of the ancient ox was originally buried in a marine 

 deposit, out of which it was washed to be re-interred in the fresh- v/ater-drifts of 

 the ancient Avon, 



The Club proceeded, after the address, to elect the officers for the ensuing year. 

 Mr. Symonds, at the request of the Society, and on the motion of Sir Charles 

 Hastings, again accepted the office of President ; Mr. Godwin Lees, the Wor- 

 cestershire botanist, was elected Vice-President, in the place of the Rev, F, Dyson, 

 deceased ; and Mr. Walter Burrow was re-elected Hon. Secretary. 



The field-meetings were arranged as follows : — 



May 19, Apperley Court, to meet the Cotteswold CJub, on the invitation of 



H. Strickland, Esq. June, Ledbury. September, Pershore. 



Nearly twenty members and corresponding- members were proposed for 

 election. 



The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field-Club. — This Club held its meeting 

 on the 16th instant, at the Ram Inn, Gloucester. T. B. LI. Baker, Esq., of Hard- 

 wicke Court, having read the address reviewing the proceedings of last year, to 

 the regret of the Club, vacated the presidential chair, which he has so ably and 

 worthily filled from its establishment in 1846, with a distinct intimation that he 

 could no longer contmue to occupy it, in consequence of the amount of time and 

 • labour he is obliged to devote to. the reformatory movement with which his name 

 ~ has become so honourably associated. Professor Buckman retired from the office 

 of Honorary Secretary. W. V, Guise, Esq., of Elmore, was unanimously elected 

 President, and Mr. John Jones, of Gloucester, Honorary Secretary. 



A discussion followed upon the desirability of throwing open the Club to any 

 duly qualified person who might be desirous of joining it, instead of limiting its 

 numbers to the fifty gentlemen already composing it, and the proposed alteration 

 was finally determined upon. Some members of the Club made an excursion to 

 the Lias-Mar] stone Quarries at Churchdown and Brockworth, others to Lassington 

 and Highnam ; while a few of the geologists devoted the interval between the 

 ]iroceedings refeiTed to and dinner-time to the examination of Mr, Jones' cabinets 

 of fossils. 



After dinner, the new President read a paper upon the " Oolites in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Bath," which gave rise to a long and animated discussion between 

 Dr, Wright, Professor Buckman, the Rev. V/. S. Symonds, and others. 



^ An invitation from Mr. Strickland, of Apperley Court, to meet the Malvern 

 Natural History Field-Club, at his house, in May, was communicated by the Rev. 

 AV. S. Symonds, of Pendock, and accepted. 



The following places were named and approved of as places of meeting during 

 the ensuing season Clieltenham, May 11th ; Dursley, June 15th ; Newnham, 

 July KUh ; SAvindi^n and Abury, Augiist 17th ; Cirencester, Sept. 14th. 



Ill the eoniinissariat department, the Club was never better served than by 

 Mr. Nunn upon tlie present occasion, whose catering was not only dvdy appre- 

 ciated by, but received its due meed of praise from, all assembled. 



