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Tur Oswestry AND WELSHPOOL NATURALISTS’ FreLp-cLus held 
their first Excursion for the season on June Ist. The Members 
assembled at Shrewsbury at 10 a.m., and proceeded first to inspect 
the Museum of that town. Besides a nice series of fossils from the 
Upper Secondary strata, the Members were interested in some 
specimens of flint implements and weapons, and also some beautiful 
examples of bronze weapons, found near Guilsfield, Montgomeryshire. 
They then walked along the banks of the Severn, and afterwards 
by the side of the canal to Pimley, and thence to the fine old ruins 
of Haughmond Abbey. The canal was being cleared from that pest 
to navigation, the American weed (Anacharis alsinastrum); and 
from among the heaps raked out upon the towing-path, some rather 
rare freshwater Shells were obtained. The Botanists were gratified 
by finding some rare plants, which grow among the ruins of the 
Abbey. There is but little to record geologically. The walk lay for 
the most part over the Permian Rocks, which here are covered by a 
thick deposit of reddish ferruginous Clay, interspersed with boulders, 
but no rock-sections are exposed. Haughmond Hill, on which the 
Abbey stands, consists in its central portion of a mass of hard, very 
compact, and fine-grained unstratified Greenstone, which is well 
exposed in a quarry where the road from Shrewsbury to Newport 
gains the crest of the hill, for ‘road-metal,’ for which it is well 
adapted. The Greenstone may be traced along the summit of the hill 
to the abrupt termination of the latter, on which the ‘Sham Castle’ 
stands, while on either side of it may be seen the dark purple Cam- 
brian Grit and Conglomerate, through which it has protruded along 
the whole length of the hill. These Cambrian Rocks are well seen 
near the Abbey, and consist of coarse-grained, rather crystalline 
Sandstone, a material not the most favourable for the preservation 
of organic remains in formations where these were plentiful. Hence 
the search for some of the few forms of the lower orders of life 
which are so rarely found in these old rocks was unsuccessful, for, 
save some doubtful traces of Annelides, no fossils were found. 
The party then returned to Shrewsbury by way of the pretty 
village of Uffington, and sat down to an excellent dinner at the 
Crown Hotel, the President, R. G. Jebb, Esq., of the Lyth, near 
Ellesmere, being in the chair. After dinner, the Rev. T. E. Jones, 
of Selattyn, was elected a Member, and six gentlemen were proposed 
as candidates for admission at the next meeting. The next meeting 
was fixed to be held at Llyncliss and Sweeney on the 18th of July. 
On the proposition of Mr. D. C. Davies, it was resolved to subscribe 
two guineas annually to the Palzontographical Society. The Pre- 
sident then gave an interesting account of the discovery of a very 
ancient shield on Bagley Moor; and Mr. T. Parrot exhibited some 
fine specimens of Calymene from the Bala Schists of Cyrn-y-brain, 
near Llangollen; and a Peeten from Monte Mario, near Rome, was 
shown by the Secretary, Mr. H. M. Gwyther.—D. C. D. 
DumMrrigEs AND GALLOWAY NATURAL History AND ANTIQUARIAN 
Socirety.—The last In-door Meeting of this Society was held in the 
