6 HISTORICAL NOTICES. CHAP. 



vations to the district round Banbury. My last interview with 

 this truly superior man was on the ruined cliffs of Culverhole, 

 in 1840. 



Diagram II. i. Lias, with pentacrinites and all the Leicestershire fossils. 

 2. Marlstone with pecten. 3. Clay. 4. Terebratula ('gingerbread'). 5. Clay. 

 6. White oolite. 



With these famous men may stand in the same rank W. J. 

 Broderip, contemporary with Buckland in the same College; for 

 to him we owe the earliest notice of the small mammals of Stones- 

 field. Later in date was the Rev. H. Jelly of Brasenose College, 

 a student in the school of Richardson and Smith, who was the first 

 to notice the small shells in the ironsand of Shotover Hill. And 

 last, and not less to be honoured than any, Hugh Edwin Strickland 

 of Merton College a naturalist of rare excellence a diligent and 

 successful workman in geology, whose loss we still deplore. He 

 repeated and extended the observations of Mr. Jelly on the strata 

 and fossils of Shotover Hill; examined the shell-bearing gravels, 

 and began to collect from the strata near Oxford. To him we owe 

 the first of the two noble specimens of Cetiosaurus which are in the 

 Oxford Museum, found, as he himself recorded, at Enslow Bridge 

 in 1848. 



The Bucklandian Collections, to which Mr. Strickland added this 

 remarkable fossil, were in 1848, and for ten years afterwards, pre- 

 served in the Clarendon Building. They are now transferred to the 

 University Museum, and a still larger bone of the same species of 

 reptile has been obtained from the same quarry, after an interval 

 of twenty years. It is quite time that the contents of this Museum 

 should be made known beyond the limits of Oxford lectures. 



To these conspicuous names of geologists belonging to Oxford and 

 Oxfordshire, must be added that of Dr. Fitton, who presented to the 



