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Mr. Moore's paper had been read to the Club, several additions 

 had been made by himself and others (he said) to the list of ex>. 

 tinct animals found in the "mammal drift" of the neighbourhood, 

 and he thought a list of these, together with their localities, might 

 be of use to the Club. Giving a short description of the "mam- 

 mal drift " which was found in our valleys, and the associated fossil 

 bones therein, specimens of which were exhibited, he called 

 attention to the change in the climate since the time that the 

 Mammoth, the Rhinoceros, the Musk sheep and Reindeer, roamed 

 amongst our hills and valleys, and remarked on the singular 

 absence of any of the works of man in the shape of paloeolithic 

 implements in these gravels. Al>mdant in other localities, the 

 most careful search had failed to fii >1 them in our neighbourhood. 

 Allusion was made to the recent decease of Dr. Errington, of 

 Prior Park, whose collection of remains of extinct animals was 

 shown in the museum there, found chiefly in the Moorfield cutting 

 on the Somerset and Dorset Railway ; and with whose enthusiasm 

 in the science of collecting Mr. Winwood had often had opportu- 

 nities of becoming acquainted. 



Excursions. 



Devizes and Potterne. The Secretary having been disabled by 

 an accident from joining this excursion, is indebted for the follow- 

 ing notes to the kindness of Dr. Mantell, Colonel Chandler and Mr, 

 Onslow Watts. The party, which seemed to be fairly numerous, 

 started on April 28th, by the iO.25 a.m. train for Trowbridge 

 and Devizes. Having nearly an hour to spare at the former 

 place, a visit was paid to the Rectory house. The Rector 

 conducted the party to the celebrated mulberry tree in the 

 garden, called Crabbe's tree, still surviving, but looking rather 

 crabbed — as some one suggested — thence into the house to Crabbe's 

 study, — a pleasant-looking room, with bookcases and everything 

 iust as they were in the Poet's time. As there was not anything 

 else particularly worthy of notice, the train for Devizes was 



