THE GEOLOGIST. 77 
that there is plenty of scattered good (for all teaching is good) to be 
done ; and also plenty of possible subscribers to your magazine, when 
it has taken a shape which will bear on them. 
Believe me, 
Your thorough well-wisher, 
C. KINGSLEY, F.L.S., E.S.A., &c. 
[In one of the prospectuses in which Thk Geologist was an- 
nounced, it was described as " a general gazette of Geology," 
" a geological ' Notes and Queries ; ' " and it was with the view of 
establishing a "Notes and Queries" department, or something equiva^ 
lent thereto, that students and others who might wish for information 
were invited to send their questions to the editor of this magazine. 
"We beg leave to call particular attention to this invitation, which will 
be found repeated this month on the second page of the cover. It is 
gratifying to find our plan approved by a man so well qualified to give 
an opinion on the subject as Mr. Kingsley ; and we hail his letter and 
the recommendation it contains with great pleasure. We hope that 
some one or other of our readers, who may have studied the Geology of 
the Isle of Purbeck, will have the goodness to reply to the questions 
propounded by our correspondent. The latter will perceive that 
we now commence a "Notes and Queries" department which will, 
we hope, eventually attain much larger dimensions, and will serve 
efi'ectually the purposes for which it is intended. — Ed. of Geologist.] 
PHOCEEDINGS OF THE WARWICKSHIRE NATURALISTS' 
AND ARCH^LOGISTS' FIELD CLUB DURING THE PAST 
SUMMER. 
Although this Society has only been established since July, 1854, the number 
of members now amounts to nearly one hundred, and the meetings have been 
most agreeable and successful. We think it may interest our readers if we give, 
from time to time, a short account of the proceedings of the club ; and in order 
to bring it up to the present year, we shall briefly review the labours of the 
session concluded in October. 
The first meeting was held at Chipping Campden, in Gloucestershire, on 
Tuesday, the 20th of May. A party of fifteen started from Warwick at 8.30, 
reaching their destination at 11. Here they were joined by only three members 
of the Cotswold Naturalist's Club, whom the Warwickshire Club hoped to have 
met in full force, especially in their own county, but unfoi-eseen causes prevented 
the attendance of the most active labourers in the field, with the exception of 
