C.C. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



IS 



;]K{eport0 from .^^ections. 



ARCHAEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



President 



A. S. Owen, Esq, 



J. M. Balfour. 

 G. R. Murray. 

 J. R. Balfour. 



T. BoucH. 



N. PORTEOUS. 



St. G. J. C. Hbath. 

 M. A. Wolff. 



HE work of this Section was considerably curtailed by 

 the extreme length of the Cricket Challenge Cups of 

 the House to which most of the members belonged. 

 A small party went on Friday the 21st of May, to 

 visit Bishop's Cleeve. Arriving at the Church about 

 5.30 on our bicycles, we were met by the Rector, who 

 very kindly conducted us round : the Church is one of the finest in 

 this part of the country, and well worth a visit for its interesting 

 Norman work in the porch and West end ; it has a small upper 

 chamber or parvise over the porch, in which was once kept an 

 Academy of which traces survive in the terms of the various studies 

 marked on the walls. While the three R's range from 3 to 5 shillings, 

 grammar is at the prohibitive price of 15 shillings, and that it was 

 regarded as an unnecessary luxury can be proved from an inscription 

 in the churchyard — 



" Eternal life was best for she." 



A general excursion of the whole Society took place on the 

 Saturday after Speech Day, July 3rd, to visit Sudeley Castle, where 



