NATURAL HISTORY. 
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The lias of Worcestershire though not so produc- 
tive in organic remains as it is in Dorsetshire and 
Yorkshire, contains notwithstanding in some of its 
beds, considerable abundance and variety. The vast 
Saurian reptiles for which Lyme Regis is so famous, 
though rare, are not wanting in our district. Verte- 
brae of the ichthyosaurus have occurred in Coltknap 
Hill, at Abbey Manor, near Evesham, at Hasler, and 
probably in many other places.^ These facts suffice 
to render it highly probable that good specimens 
of these magnificent reptiles may occur in our lias 
district, and the interest excited by our Society in the 
cause of geology may be the means of saving many a 
valuable specimen from the hammer of the quarry- 
man. 
Bredon Hill, in the southern part of the county, a 
magnificent outlyer from the great oolitic chain 
of the Cotswolds, now demands our attention. Its 
middle region consists of marlstone reposing upon 
the lias, or lias shale, which extends from 200 to 300 
feet up its sides, as it does upon the more distant 
ridge of Broadway. The marlstone, which abounds 
in fossils, consists of a series of beds of sandstone and 
sand, in various degrees of induration. It ranges 
along the side of the Broadway range, at about half 
the height, and skirts Bredon Hill in the same 
manner, where it forms the summit of five or six 
flat-topped projections, half the height of the main 
range, and jutting out from it on the north and east 
sides. In Dumbleton Hill, which is of inferior height, 
^ Mrs. Brown, of Hasler, possesses a vertebra of the Plesiosatmes, 
