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time, and thus affording a clue to the zoologist of the changing 
land and shore fauna which probably included the earliest 
of mammals. 
The Professor’s remarks were supplemented by some 
valuable observations by the Rev. W. Winwood, who thought 
Professor Etheridge had carried the line of separation between 
the Rhetics and New Red too low, and that the series should 
be regarded as one of transition. After returning from the 
Cliff the members availed themselves of the thoughtful and 
kind hospitality of Mr and Mrs Colchester-Wemyss, who, in 
their fine old garden, had provided refreshments, which were 
much appreciated, and made an agreeable termination of a very 
pleasant day’s excursion. Mr Colchester-Wemyss showed a very 
beautifully-worked flint hatchet, of neolithic type, which was 
found on his property at the Wilderness, in the Forest. The 
party then took the brake and reached Gloucester in time for 
the 6.30 train to Cirencester and Cheltenham. 
I am indebted to Mr Colchester-Wemyss for the following 
interesting information as to the change of name of Garden 
Cliff :— 
In the year 1591—33rd year of the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth—Manor of Rodley, is an entry— 
“The Presentment of the aforesaid Jurors of the 
‘< customarie tenants within the said Manor concerninge certen 
“things there required of as followeth, viz. :— 
“That every Barke or Pichard of any Stranger that shall 
“make staie, load or unloade or bee att anchor in any place of 
“ Seaverne betweene the Pill of Newnham on the west parte 
“and Garron Cliffe on the east parte oughte to paie kiellage— 
“for every such Barke or Picharde iiij?* (= 4d.) 
And on the 1st October, 1683, there is an entry— 
«“ At a Court Baron &c. this day held, the Jury presented 
“the names of several persons ‘To make up their Walls and 
“Banks from Garron Mill to Gay Shard.’ ” 
This is the last time the name of Garron occurs; and on 
the 14th October, 1731, is an entry, without mentioning the 
Cliff, but the Mill close to it, which was then called Garden 
Mill. 
