52 CHELTENHAM COLLEGE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
EXPEDITIONS. 
A VisiT TO OXFORD. 
<4)N Thursday, June rst, 1893, an expedition was made 
4 by the Natural History Society to Oxford. On 
arriving we found our gu'des waiting at the sta- 
tion to show us the lions of the city. Different 
parties set out in search of the several places of 
SS interest. Our party first proceeded tothe Ashmolean 
Museum, next to the Bodleian, and thence to the Natural History 
Museum ; the greatest care being taken all the time to prevent the 
numerous parties from clashing. We then made our way to Christ 
Church, and after admiring the Cathedral, we turned our steps 
towards the ancient kitchen of the College, which is especially 
remarkaile for its great size,—where before the fire is a spit capable 
of roasting sixty fowls or forty joints at the same time; there may 
also be seen a gridiron of considerable proportions, used in the 
time of Wolsey. The next object of interest was the great Dining 
Hall, certainly the finest in Oxford ; its walls being adorned with 
portraits of former students. In the tower over the principal gate- 
way hangs the great bell ‘Tom,’ and this we also saw before we left 
Christ Church. 
But leaving Christ Church we went to Corpus, and then to 
Merton, whose fine chapel and spacious gardens are so well worth 
seeing. We next visited Magdalen, where we were delighted with the 
cloisters and the charming walk by the water-side. Our guide then 
took us to New College, with its cloisters and beautiful chapel. 
_ Among the numerous other Colleges, which we visited, St. John’s was 
especially prominent with its splendid oid gardens ; the picturesque 
quad, and chapel of Exeter were also conspicuous. 
After we had seen as much of the city as our limited time allowed 
us, we were very kindly entertained by the following O.C’s. in their 
rooms:—W. H. Barrow, Merton; J. A. Inglis, Christ Church ; 
L. T. Levick, Pembroke ; L. L. Montagnon, Hertford; A. S. Owen, 
New ; H. A. Thornton, Christ Church; T. C. Smith, Heriford ; 
T. Vans Best, Magdalen ; F. Worsey, Corfus ; to whom the College 
