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The second day's trip was first to Mocktree. After examining the fine 

 sections of Aymestry limestone, and Lower Ludlow rock, the party proceeded 

 to Leintwardine, where they separated for a short time, Mr. Symonds and Mr. 

 Lightbody going on further to Pedwardine, to examine the small upheaval of 

 Lower Llandeilo flags, containing Dictyonema sociale in abundance, and a small 

 species of Lingulella. The remainder of the party went on to Church Hill. The 

 Church Hill quarries have been more productive of new organisms than any other 

 section in this locality ; twelve new species of Star-fish, several Encrinites, a 

 few Ceratiocarides, and two or three specimens of Limuloides, an organism 

 allied to the king-crabs of our existing seas, have been found there. It was in 

 these beds of the Lower Ludlow formation that the oldest known Pteraspis was 

 found. After Mr. Lightbody joiued again the party, they continued on towards 

 Ludlow, through the beautiful grounds belonging to Downton Castle, in which 

 are some fine sections of Upper Ludlow rock. At the lower end of the Walks 

 near Downton Castle Bridge, the Upper Ludlow Bone Bed is well exposed, 

 and immediately overlying it is the Trochus bed, from which several small, but 

 perfect, fish-heads have been obtained. A short walk from here to the Forge 

 Bridge, and back to Ludlow by carriage, concluded the second day's excursion, 

 through a most interesting locality both to the geologist and the botanist. 



Worcestershire Naturalists' Club. — The first meeting of this Club of 

 practical observers was held May 15, at Malvern, when a large number of 

 members responded to the hospitable invitation of Dr. Grindrod to breakfast 

 with him at Townsend House. The officers of the club for the ensuing year 

 are as follows : — The Rev. David Melville, rector of Great Witley, President ; 

 Rev. A. H. Wilmington Ingram, F.G.S., and Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., Vice- 

 Presidents ; and William Matthews, Esq., A.M., F.G.S., Hon. Secretary. Dr. 

 Grindrod exhibited his unique collection of Silurian fossils, which had been 

 arranged and classified according to the rocks in which they had been found 

 purposely for the occasion. He indicated his intention to display his exten- 

 sive collection in a building about to be erected for the purpose, which at 

 certain times would be freely open to the public. The party proceeded up 

 the hills to the pass of the Wych, descending the western declivity to the 

 Great Winnings quarry. In the way down, an ancient coral-reef in the 

 Wenlock deposits attracted much attention, andboth here and at the Winnings 

 numerous specimens of fossil corals and testacea were collected, and some 

 good trilobites. The interest of the day was chiefly for the geologists, a party 

 of whom stayed behind at the Winnings, being loaded too much for further 

 progress. The botanists then made a traverse to Brockhill Wood, where, 

 breaking through the briars, they found themselves in the romantic Purlieu 

 Lane, a place of double interest, botanical and geological. Dr. Grindrod 

 called attention to the " bone-bed" at the end of the lane, and the succession 

 of strata from the Ludlow Rocks to the Old Red. The next advance was to 

 the deserted mansion of the Cliffes, where ruin and decay suggested that the 

 estate was or had been "in Chancery." The party next made a traverse to 

 Mathon Church. 



After the dinner at West Malvern, Dr. Grindrod then made some ob- 

 servations on geological matters, ending with the advantages to be derived 

 from constant devotion to any pursuit, and proposed to enrol in their number 

 a clever working man, of Cradley, Jacob Gill, who had been of great service 

 in collecting and securing valuable fossils, which was done. 



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