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wich’s ‘high-level series,” and occupy and cover a hill in the Valley 
of the Severn, between Tewkesbury and Upton-on-Severn, 180 feet 
above the river, in the grounds of William Dowdeswell, Esq., of 
Pull Court. These drifts have yielded portions of the tusk of an 
elephant, a bone of some large pachyderm, and several species of 
marine shells. The latter have been forwarded to Mr. J. Gwyn 
Jeffreys for determination.—The second section in the Drift opened 
by the Club is at Glynch’s Mill, near Eastnor. Here the sands and 
eravels occupy a lower level and rest against the Upper Silurian 
Rocks (Wenlock Shale), in a narrow valley west of the Southern 
Malverns. This section was opened at the request of the Presi- 
dent (the Rev. W. S. Symonds), who hoped to discover some shells 
which might determine the question as to the Marine or Fresh- 
water origin of these beds. The result was not so satisfactory 
as that of the high-level-drift section at Pull Court ; for, although 
marine shells were detected, they were very fragmentary, and might 
perhaps have been washed out of older deposits. The evidence of 
ice-action was, however, very interesting. Many large boulders of 
transported rocks were taken out, which, although they belonged to 
the Silurian district, gave evidence by their sharp edges that they 
could hardly have found their way to the nook where they rested 
among well-rounded and rolled pebbles by any other agency than 
ice. Mammoth remains were also detected in this deposit. 
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OsweEstRY AND WeLsHPooL NaTtuRALists’ Fieip-cius. — This 
Society met for its Second Excursion this year at Llynclis, near 
Oswestry, on July 13th. After a brief examination of the margin 
of the Pool, which is good botanizing ground, the Botanical Section 
proceeded towards Crickheath and Llanyblodwel Rocks, where they 
were successful in finding many of the rare ferns and other plants 
which make these rocks their habitat. The Geological Section 
visited, first, the lower beds of the Carboniferous Limestone at 
Porthywaen, where they obtained specimens of Cyrtinia carbonaria, 
Productus Llangollensis, and Murchisonia Verneuiliana. They 
then proceeded to examine the fossiliferous Lower Silurian Shales 
which at this point underlie the Mountain-limestone,: and are 
exposed on the road leading from Porthywaen to Treflack. A 
cutting in a branch railway which is in the course of construction 
up the Nant Mawr afforded another section of these Shales, and 
showed their unconformability to the Mountain-limestone. From 
this point the Members returned along the line of a great fault to 
the old quarries in the Mountain-limestone at Wern, where ex- 
amples of several species of Lithostrotion and Diphyphyllum were 
found, both in such a state of preservation as to exhibit their 
internal structure, and to show that the latter is not, as some authors 
suppose, only a species of the former genus. The return route now 
lay along the junction of the Mountain-limestone with the Millstone 
Grit; and a very limited search served to justify the reputation for 
fossils which the latter formation has now gained in this district. 
