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and slabs, in which the most beautiful inlaying is done 

 and which adorns the spar and marble shops of Buxton. 

 Mr. Woodruffe, of that town, is an artist of high skill in 

 designing and inlaying, and his show-room is well worth 

 visiting when the club meets there in June for its two 

 days' excursion. We may well feel proud that we have 

 such a fine representation of the mountain limestone forma- 

 tion, in the charming scenery through which the rivers 

 Hamps, Dove, and Manyfold flow, with their cliffs and tors, 

 with their interesting caverns and subterranean river courses, 

 all of which give great interest to the northern part of our 

 county, and are within easy reach of this smoky and toiling 

 district. And proud also may we justly feel that the labours 

 of a quiet and humble observer of this limestone, and one 

 who was well known to most of us, have borne such in- 

 teresting fruit. The late Samuel Carrington, of Wetton, 

 in the course of a patient working extending over a series 

 of years, brought to light no fewer than 676 species of 

 limestone fossils, exclusive of varieties and many unnamed 

 specimens. A list of these fossils was printed for the 

 Leek meeting of the club in 1870. It is intended by 

 some of the members of this club, assisted by a few 

 other friends, to perpetuate his memory by the erection, 

 in the summer, of a suitable monumental tomb over his 

 remains in Wetton Churchyard. About 10 more only 

 is required to complete the necessary amount, and I, as 

 treasurer, shall be glad to receive additional subscriptions 

 to that amount. May I be permitted to say for the en- 

 couragement of our young members, that Mr. Carrington's 

 example and success may well exert very stimulating in- 

 fluence on those who can, like him, devote their Saturday 

 afternoons and holidays (for he was a schoolmaster, and 

 enjoyed his Saturdays, which always found him abroad in 

 the best senses of the word,) to the study of the fossils 

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