144 DAA^IS: HUGH EDWIN STRICKLAND, F.R.S., ETC. 
at liberty to go. Atter all, this same " Little-go" is a great farce, 
only few like to consider it so until they have passed it. 
His vacation he passed with his father in Paris, and at the usual 
time resumed his studies at Oxford. He attended Dr. Kidd's 
anatomical lectures, and in the Autumn of 1831 retired to read with 
a tutor. He went to the Isle of Wight, and the sections of the 
rocks at St. Helen's, White Cliff Bay, and Alum Bay, immediately 
attracted his attention, and occupied a considerable portion of his 
time. He, however, did not neglect his studies, and in May passed 
liis public examination, and the following spring took his degree for 
M.A. Upon thus completing his studies at the University, lie 
returned home to Cracombe House, and the interesting character of 
tlie vicinity and surrounding country afforded him almost inex- 
haustible materials as a geologist. The district was at this time 
being opened up in tlie formation of railway cuttings, and these in 
the valley of the Severn afforded him opportunities for working out 
the then unknown relations of the Keuper and New Red Sandstone 
beds. His geological collection may probably be considered to have 
assumed a systematic shape about this time. It rapidly increased, 
and its arrangement and classification brought him into correspond- 
ence and acquaintance with men of kindred tastes and acknowledged 
reputations both at home and abroad. At the same time other 
branches of natural history occupied a large share of his attention, 
and his collection of birds assumed somewhat large proportions. 
His practical knowledge of the geology of Worcestershire enabled him 
to afford valuable information to Mr. G. B. Greenough in the con- 
struction of the second edition of his geological map. The same 
cause led to a knowledge of, and friendship with Sir Roderick 
Murchison, who in 1834 requested Strickland to lay down the 
boundary between the Lias and the New Red Sandstone in Worces- 
tershire for the ordnance map then in progress. He had previously, 
in conjunction with Mr. Edwin Lees, furnished a geological map of 
Worcestershire to Sir Chas. Hasting's Illustrations of the Natural 
History of that country, which, when it is remembered that tlie field 
was at that time uncultivated and geologists knew little of the 
geology of the Malvern and Aberley range, may be regarded as a very 
