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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 Bictyonema 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-iish, 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 joined again the party, they continued on towards 
Ludlow, through the oeautiful 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. Winnington 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 declivitv to the 
Great Winnings quariy. In the way down, an ancient coral-reef in the 
Wenlock deposits attracted much attention, and both here and at the Winnings 
numerous specimens of fossil corals and testacea were collected, and some 
good trUobites. 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, 
creaking 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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