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fact that cottages had been built on the site. Four-fifths of the buildings 
found were of the decorated style of architecture. Mr. Cox then gave a list of 
the ‘ finds,” pointing out particularly the large number of encaustic tiles—some 
of which were unique, and were found in their original positions—the high altar in 
situ at the east end of the choir, a number of tombs and monuments, the beautiful 
mouldings, and one large block of Purbeck marble. He described a number of 
other articles which had been found, and, as he had photographs of some of them 
and a large map of the excavations, he was able to make the address interesting 
andexplicit. In concluding, he cited several legends attached to the abbey, and 
appealed to the members of the Burton Society to make the abbey the destination 
of one of their excursions. 
CARADOC FIELD CLUB.—At a recent meeting the following were 
elected officers for 1879 :—President, Rev. J. D. La Touche ;Vice-Presidents: Rev. 
W. Jellicorse, Rev. J. J. Lambert, Mr. Wm. Phillips; Honorary Secretary and 
Treasurer, Rev. William Elliot. The following Field Meetings were decided 
on :—Wednesday, June 25th, Coalbrookdale ; Wednesday, July 30th, Welshpool ; 
Wednesday, August 27th, The Stiperstones; Wednesday, September 24th, 
(Special for Cryptogamic Botany,) The Wrekin. 
DUDLEY AND MIDLAND GEOLOGICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY 
AND FIELD CLUB.—March 13th.—At a committee meeting, held this day, the 
following Field Meetings were arranged for, and several new members elected :— 
April 22nd, Froghall, Cauldon Low, and Cornsall Wood, with the North Staf- 
fordshire Field Club; May 20th and 21st, Leicester, with the Midland Union; 
June 18th, Annual Meeting at Dudley and Frankley; July 24th, Shatterford and 
Arley Castle; August 22nd, Cheltenham; September 23rd, Satton Park; 
October 20th, Bushbury, and Evening Meeting at Wolverhampton. 
EVESHAM FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB.—January 22nd.—The Rev. 
Canon A. H. Winnington Ingram, F.G.S., read a paper on ‘‘ The Glacial Deposits 
of the Vale of Evesham.” He divided them into four groups. The oldest, 
capping the Craycombe and Lench Hills, had been deposited by a marine 
current from the north, was destitute of animal remains, and composed chiefly 
of quartzose pebbles, many of which were halves of rounded fragments of 
transition rocks. The pebbles had been cloven in two probably by the action of 
intense frost. The next series of drift was also a marine accumulation after an 
elevation of the land, and was found on subjacent eminences, rising from seventy 
to 120 feet above the level of the Avon. This gravel is composed of water- 
worn fragments of older rocks, and includes on Green Hill some very large 
perfect flints with marks of Glacial Striation, transported, no doubt, 
on ice from a south east direction. The beds of gravel and sand at 
Harvington, Norton, and Lenchwick were laid down by the sea after it had 
retired from the higher ground, and left a wider area for animal life. Bones of 
the mammoth and other mammalia appear in this drift, and there are 
signs of a large river from the north having debouched into the 
marine waters. The gravel terraces occurring on both banks of the Avon were 
formed by the river when it flowed in a stream more than half a mile broad. 
The fluviatile origin of these terraces of sand and pebbles is indicated by the 
occurrence of river shells at their base. The presence of antlers of reindeer, and 
bones and teeth of the long-haired elephant and woolly rhinoceros, bespeaks a 
cold climate at the time of their deposition. The association of the teeth and 
tusks of the Hippopotamus major, a congener of which is at present a native of 
South and Central Africa, with the relics of northern animals, may be explained 
by the supposition that the bones of the latter were floated on river ice, from a 
colder territory, or by the hypothesis of intervals of a genial climate occurring in 
the ice age, more suited to the condition of life of the river-horse, which 
could not have existed when the watery element in which it delights was frozen 
over during a great part of the year, and the adjoining land supported only 
stunted birches and mosses and lichens, the food of the reindeer. Fresh-water 
shells in a layer of fine sand at the bottom of those highly interesting gravel 
deposits, near the New Inn at Cropthorne and Little Comberton, testify that they 
owe their origin to the neighbouring rivulets which formerly flowed in a much 
larger volume of water, and so seem to afford a corroboration of Mr. Tyler's 
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