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speeches, an adjournment was made to the museum of 
G. H. Piper, Esq., Vice-President of the Malvern Field 
Club, who exhibited his splendid collection of Silurian and 
Old Pied remains. Some specimens of Auehenaspis, with the 
body complete, are, we believe, unmatched. 
The party then divided; some going under the guidance 
of the Rev. T. Auden to visit Ledbury Church, a Norman 
nave with Early English and Decorated additions, and a fine 
detached tower; while a few of the keener geologists 
accompanied Mr. Piper to the tunnel near the railway station, 
where he read a paper on the remarkable series there shown 
of Downton Sandstones, and passage beds between the 
Silurian and Old Red. These beds extend outside and above 
the tunnel in an unbroken section of over 900 feet, and show 
most completely the alternations of Silurian shales and lime¬ 
stones (containing trilobites, pterygotus, etc.), with Old Red 
marls and sandstones, containing Ceplialaspis and other fish 
remains. Mr. Piper carefully measured these beds some 
years ago, before they began to be weathered and grass- 
grown ; even yet they present a history of the transition 
between two great systems which cannot be surpassed 
anywhere. 
The members were not fortunate enough to find any of 
the rarer fossils, but in the Ludlow and Aymestry rocks 
of the quarry just above, which form a downward continuation 
of the previous beds, many of the usual fossils were obtained. 
But the sound of the horn soon recalled all to the brakes, and 
after visiting Eastnor Church, they returned home by seven 
o’clock, after a very hot but most pleasant day. 
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY BOTANY OF WORCESTER. 
BY WM. MATHEWS, M. A. 
(Continued from 'page 174.) 
Third Period, 1S01 to 1850. 
It is not until the commencement of the present century 
that “ English Botany ” furnishes any new record for the 
County of Worcester. The period opens with the discovery 
of Festuca Calamaria (F. sylvatica, Vill.), as related in Vol. 14 
of that work, 1802, where, under No. 1,005, Sir James Smith 
writes, “ Mr. Moseley , of Glasshampton, favoured us lately with 
living plants from the ledges of a lofty red sandstone rock in 
