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old roof, said to be the finest 14th century roof now in Europe, 
was re-erected in the Nave of this Church in 1867, having been 
removed from its original position (by Vandals and Goths, some 
say) for that purpose. The day was well advanced when the 
admirably arranged Museum of Townshend house, at Great 
Malvern, was invaded, where Dr. Grinrod, its indefatigable and 
energetic proprietor, was waiting to point out its unique contents. 
In a glass case at the end of the room were specimens of the 
various rocks, eruptive and metamorphic, which compose the hills. 
Down the length of the room ran a double glass case, containing 
a series of specimens arranged stratigraphically, and showing the 
characteristic fossils of the district. Beginning with the end 
nearest the house were the older rocks, with a gradually ascending 
series to the topmost beds of the Palceozoic period. First came 
the “Holly bush sandstone,” with its arenicolites and probable 
fucoids, the oldest unaltered rock in the district, and supposed to 
be of Cambrian age. To these succeed the “ Black Shales,” called 
“ Olenus Shale,” and characterised by a peculiar genus of Trilo- 
bites, named Olenus. Then comes an unfilled space, representing 
a gap or break in the succession of deposits, for the next rocks 
represented are the highly fossiliferous rocks of the May 
hill sandstone, or Upper Llandovery beds, so that all the 
beds are wanting here between the Olenus Shales (the Llan- 
deilo or Lingula flags), and the topmost beds of the Lower 
Silurians, or the bottom beds of the Upper Silurian. Some 
very interesting blocks of May Hill conglomerate were pointed 
out as the oldest representative of this formation, and as indi- 
cative from its included water-worn pebbles of a period when 
the waves beat upon the rocks of these very old hills, and formed 
the palzozoic beach of the period. Dr. Grinrod, having dilated 
with pardonable pride on his truly unrivalled collection of British 
‘trilobites, having shown a rare specimen of Encrinurus punctatus 
with its spines complete, revealed the inside of a Calymene, the 
many-clustered eye of a Phacops, and many another peculiarity of 
