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THE GEOLOGIST. 
Upper Old Red sandstone of Scotland. Portions of Holoptycldus and Pterichthya 
had been found by Dr. Melville, Mr. Lighthody, and Mi'. Roberts, in the yellow 
sandstone of Farlow, near Ledbury Mortimer, and " Old Red" plants have been 
found by Mr. Syniouds 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. Sti-icidand. 
The mammalian remains found by Mr. Strickland in the Cropthome and Avon 
drift and gi-avels were imljedded in a silt containing fresh-water shells, such as 
Limnppa, Pythinia, and of species now living in tiie adjacent river. The remains 
consist of tlie teetli and bones of rhinoceros, elephant, deer, bos, horse, &c. 
Among these is a fine head of Bos iirinii genius, from the interior of which Mrs. 
Strickland obtained a perfect marine shell (Turritella). 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- water-di'ifts of 
the ancient Avon. 
The Club jiroceeded, after the address, to elect tlie officers for the ensuing year. 
Mr. Symonds, at the request of the Society, and on the motion of Sir Charles 
Hastings, again accept'ed 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 Buitow was re-elected Hon. Secretaiy. 
The field-meetings were arranged as follows : — 
May 19, Apperley Court, to meet the Cotteswold Club, on the invitation of 
H. Strickland, Esq. June, Ledbury. Se])tember, Pershore. 
Nearly twenty members and corresponding- members were proposed for 
election. 
The Cotteswold Naturalists' Field-Club. — This Club held its meeting 
on the 16th in.stant, at the Ram Inn, Gloucester. T. B. LI. Baker, Esq., of Hard- 
wicke Court, having read the address reviewing the jiroceedings 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 continue 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 Buckinan retired irom the office 
of Honorary Secretary. W. V. Guise, Esq., of Elmore, was luianimously elected 
President, and J\Ir. John Jones, of Gloucester, Honorary Secretary. 
A discussion followed upon the desiral)ility 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-Marlstone Quarries at Churchdown and Brockworth, others to Lassington 
and Highnam ; wliilc a few of the geologists devoted the interval between the 
]iroceedings referred 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. W. S. Symonds, and others. 
An invitation from Mr. Strickland, of Apperley Court, to meet the Malvern 
Natural History Fiekl-Club, at his house, in May, was communicated by the Rev. 
W. S. Symonds, of Pcndock, and accepted. 
The following places were named and approved of as places of meeting during 
the ensuing season : — Cheltenham, May 11th ; Dursley, June 1.5th ; Newnhain, 
July l.'ith ; Swindon and Abury, August 17th ; Cirencester, Sept. 14th. 
In the commissariat dei)artment, the Club was never better served than by 
Mr. Nunn upon the present occasion, whose catering was not only duly appre- 
ciated by, but received its due meed of jiraise from, all assembled. 
