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BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Archaeological. 
Mr. W. G, Fretton, F.S.A., will lead an excursion to Coventry 
and Kenilworth. The train will leave Birmingham (New Street) 
at 10.0 a.m., arriving at Coventry at 10.28. The party will be met 
at the station by Mr. Fretton, who will conduct the members to 
the following places of interest in the city :—Site of Cheylesmore 
Manor House, Grey Friars Spire (now attached to Christ Church), 
all that remains of the Franciscan Monastery, Ford’s Hospital (a 
magnificent specimen of timber work), St. Michael’s Church, St. 
Mary’s Hall, Holy Trinity Church, remains of the Benedictine 
Priory and Cathedral, remains of City Walls and Gates, St. John’s 
Hospital (until lately the Free Grammar School), Bablake Hospital, 
and St. John’s Church. To the Craven Arms Hotel to lunch at 12 
o’clock. Leave for Kenilworth in conveyances at one o’clock via 
Stivichall, Avenues of Oak, along the Warwick Road, turn off at 
Gibbet Hill for Stoneleigh, Ancient Church. Motslow Hill, The 
Abbey, and Thickthorne Woods, to Kenilworth Castle. Mr. Fretton 
will describe the ruins, and conduct the party by way of the 
Remains of the Priory and Parish Church to the station. Leave 
Kenilworth Station at 5.57 ; arrive in Birmingham at 6.35 p.m. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY * 
BY J. F. GOODE. 
(Concluded from page 140.) 
Those who are interested in microscopical work will find the 
last edition of “ The Microscope and Its Revelations,” by 
Dr. W. B. Carpenter, edited by Dr. W. H. Dallinger, a most 
valuable and interesting book. Dr. Dallinger’s name alone is 
sufficient to commend it to those who are familiar with his brilliant 
researches into the life-history of the saprophytic organisms; and 
also his vast experience of all that relates to microscopical 
technique. It has always been the favourite companion of the 
amateur microscopist, but the present edition, owing to the large 
* Read before the Birmingham Natural History and Microscopical 
Society, April 11th, 1893. 
July, 1893. 
