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MEETING AT LUDLOW FOR THE TITTERSTONE 

 CLEE HILL AND OAKLEY PARK. 



July 28th, 1868. 



A friendly meeting of the Caradoc and Woolhope Naturalist Field Clubs 

 took place at Ludlow on Tuesday last. The weather was very favourable, and 

 it is scarcely necessary to say more than this, to show that it was well attended, 

 and that a most enjoyable day was spent. Ludlow offers such a combination 

 of attractions, and receives its visitors so well and so spiritedly, that his mind 

 would be poor indeed that did not have it greatly enriched, and carry off, 

 moreover, the happiest recollections. Geology was the main object of the. 

 present gathering, and to the student of geology Ludlow is especially interesting. 

 It is the best starting point for a district to be carefully studied by the physical 

 geologist. Here the highest beds of the Silurian system are best developed ; 

 here is that remarkable bone bed so instructive and valuable with relation to 

 the beginning of vertebrate life ; it is witliin easy reach of the celebrated Church- 

 hill Quarry, where the earliest fish was found ; and it has a Museum excellently 

 arranged, and of the highest interest. This Museum contains the best collection 

 in England of the Lower Ludlow star-fiahes, some of them unique specimens. 

 A valuable collection of birds has been recently added to it, and it is indeed 

 highly creditable to the town, great as its opportunities certainly are. On the 

 present occasion the Museum was thrown open for its visitors, and E. Lightbody, 

 Esq., to whom belongs many of the most valuable specimens, very kindly 

 attended himself to point them out, and give every explanation that might be 

 required. 



