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consequence, distinguished by the name of one who was an 
illustrious Member of the Cotteswold Club. The generic name 
of the species thus referred to is Stricklandinia Pentamerus 
obscwrius is the characteristic fossil of the Upper Llandovery beds 
at May Hill, whilst Stricklandinia leus and S. liratus are abun- 
dant in the Lower Llandovery, but found sparingly in the Upper 
Llandovery. - 
The nature of the crystalline structure of the rocks forming 
the core of the Hill was known to Sir Roderick Murchison as 
the quartzose schists; but since his time, they are generally 
known by geologists as crystalline schists, and their origin has 
been considered by the latést worker, viz: Dr Callaway, due to 
the metamorphosis of igneous rocks. This alleged conclusion 
as to their birth is deduced from his investigation of the 
crystalline schists of Galway, and also those of the Malverns— 
see Dr Callaway’s papers—that on the Malvern Hill schists 
being only an instalment in the Q. J. Geol. Soc: Vol. XLITI, 
pp- 517, 525. 
The brake was again taken, and as a considerable ascent 
was made up May Hill before the road turned off to Clifford’s 
Mesne, the view of the plain and the Cotteswold range was much 
enjoyed being new to most of the Members. The quarry at 
the Mesne was explained by the President as one of great 
interest to Geologists as the beds are of Downton Sandstone, 
similar to those over the tunnel at Ledbury, and represented , 
the close of the Silurians and the advent of the Devonian 
epoch. Some time was spent in examining this interesting 
quarry, and the searchers were rewarded by discovering the 
remains of carbonized vegetation which had probably drifted 
from the ancient shore into the stream and were covered up 
and fossilized in the sandy sediment, much in the same way 
that vegetable remains drift down the large rivers of the 
present period, and finally become buried in the delta. 
Thence on to Bowlsdon where there are three small 
isolated patches of coal, one of which a few years ago was 
worked, but not successfully, and was soon wisely abandoned. — 
