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'more ancient schoolroom to its present site, well known to old 

 Sherborne boys, as they " capped " the image of royalty-better 

 known, perhaps, than the Latin lines beneath:— 



En ! tibi, Flos juvenum, Britonum Decus, Inclytus orbis 

 Splendor, Appoliuei Deliciteque chori. 

 Gymnasium hie pueris statuit, gratumque Minerva 

 Ut gratis discant—discito— gratis eris. 

 Outside and over the gateway leading to the court in which this 

 hall stands, the foUowing two Latin lines record the foundation 

 of the school : — 



Edvardi impensis patet hie Schola Publica Sexti, 

 Grammaticje cupidis, nobile Eegis opus. 

 From the hall up to the sick chambers curiously built amid the 

 stone groining of what was the Lady Chapel, thence to the 

 admirably fitted up library, the ancient Guestenhall, and through 

 the chapel to the museum on the opposite side of the road. 

 Formerly belonging to a silk factory, this well lightea room con- 

 tains a very good collection of the characteristic fossds of he 

 neighbourhood, principally from the Inferior Oohte, and has 

 evidently had more attention bestowed on its contents than most 

 school museums. Mr. Wood briefly indicated from a geological 

 section of the neighbourhood the formations recently traversed m 

 descending order from the Oxford Clay and Cornbrash at Temple- 

 combe to the Forest Marble, Fuller's Earth, Fuller's Earth Kock, 

 and Inferior Oolits on which Sherborne is built; the only 

 peculiarity being that the Great Oolite so thick at Bath had 

 thinned out in this direction altogether, and was probably 

 represented by the Forest Marble. The Secretary supplemented 

 Mr Wood's remarks with a few words as to the formations 

 suc'cessively passed over on the morning's journey, leaving the 

 Lower Lias of the Bath valley they had passed through the Upper 

 Lias in the cutting below Devonshire buildings, the Sands of 

 the Midford tunnel, on to the Inferior Oolite beyond, over the 



