NATURAL HISTORY. 
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scutatus, a well known chalk fossil, has been met 
with. In the neighbourhood of the lias the diluvial 
beds often contain rolled fragments of the fossils 
of that formation, such as Gryphoea incurva, Ammon- 
ites, &c. At the village of Bredon the Hippopodium 
ponderosum occurs in the gravel in addition to the 
above fossils. Near the oolite hills the diluvial beds 
contain, as might be expected, fragments of oolite. 
Besides borrowed fossils the diluvial beds occa- 
sionally contain fossil remains of their own, consisting 
of the bones of land animals, which appear to have 
been living in this country at the time of the catas- 
trophe which caused the deposits in which they are 
now imbedded. This Society possesses several bones 
of the hippopotamus found at Cropthorne, and we 
are in hopes of obtaining more from the same place. 
The remains of a species of deer also occurred at 
Cropthorne. In a gravel pit at Chadbury bones 
of the rhinoceros have been found, also a fine molar 
tooth of that animal, which has been presented to 
this Society by Mrs. Perrot, of Fladbury. Fossil 
bones of some large animal have also been found in 
Mr. Day's clay pit at Bengeworth, and the Society is 
indebted to Mr. Stokes for a fine tooth of the elephant 
from Stratford-upon-Avon. 
Thus then there is ample evidence of the existence 
in our diluvial strata of those interesting remains 
which carry us back to a period^ and not, geologically 
speaking, a distant one, when the hippopotamus, 
rhinoceros, and elephant, roamed undisturbed in the 
vallies of Worcestershire ; and hence I beg to recom- 
