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a memorial window to H. E. Strickland, Esq., the eminent 

 geologist, who was killed by a railway train ; and at the west end 

 of the south aisle is some very good 14th century glass, with a 

 figure of St. Catherine holding the well-known wheel in her left 

 hand, with the right hand and finger upraised in the attitude of 

 attention. Before leaving the church a successful photogi-aph was 

 taken of the members groiiped around the base of the Tower. A 

 short walk across the fields and through a lane known for its 

 pseudomorphous crystals of salt found in the new red marls of the 

 side banks, brought the party to Apperley Court, where, most 

 unexpectedly, a lunch had been provided by the hospitable pro- 

 prietress. Miss Strickland. Before partaking of it a visit was paid 

 to the Strickland collection of bones, amongst which are two very 

 fine specimens of the heads and horn coi-es of the bos primigenius 

 and bison priscus, found at Cropthom, on the river Avon, by the 

 late Mr. Strickland, in 1834. With the kind permission of Miss 

 Strickland an attempt was made to take a photograph of these 

 valuable heads, but most unfoilunately, owing to some circumstances 

 over which our amateur photographer apparently had no control, 

 the attempt was unsuccessful. Mr. Symonds was evidently at 

 home amongst these old bones ; and holding up the last bone of 

 the tail of the cave lion, told how such apparently opposites as the 

 mammoth or long haired elephant and the hippopotamus, the 

 great cave bear, rhinocerous tichorinus, and cave lion, with bos 

 primigenius and other animals now extinct, specimens of whose 

 bones were spi-ead before them, had been associated together in 

 life, as their bones were now mixed together in death in the low 

 level gravels of the river, and had roamed freely over the neighbour- 

 ing plains together with primaeval man. Reasons were given for 

 supposing that the now extinct bos primigenius was living down to 

 the Roman period, and among the ancient Welsh in the time of 

 St. David. The next and the last point in the day's excursion was 

 Wainlode Clifi", whei"e a good section of the keuper marls is exposed 

 on the left bank of the Severn with a capping of rhsetic and lower 

 lias. So far as the fossils are concerned this section does not pre- 

 sent the same interest as the sections of similar beds at Aust and 

 Garden CliflF. The fossiliferous bands are too high to work and the 



