After the al fresco dinner of the “Worcestershire Naturalist Club,” under the Sorb Tree, in Wyre Forest, I and Mr. Baxter of Worcester, well known for his botanical acumen, started for the Ludlow promontory, via Cleobury and Caynham. I copy from my note-book the following geological facts—some may be of use to the definer of the limits of ancient life-periods; others, deficient in value for such purposes, may save future explorers time and trouble in working up the district.

I arrange them in the order of their occurrence.

The “Brownstones” of the cornstone series are finely quarried a mile east of Cleobury; very fine rippled-marked slabs may be obtained, and ichnites (fossil footprints) should be apparent, it being an equivalent bed to the one in which they occur at Puddlestone, Herefordshire.

The curious outlier of the “Forest Coal-field,” on which Cleobury stands, has been fruitlessly sunk into for coal this year; another proof that the geologist is not “abroad” in the land, no bed in the whole coal-field having paid expenses, and, in some instances—this I find among the number—the Old Red has been reached without coal being met with.

The south end of the Titterstone Hill, presenting a fine escarpment of mountain limestone to the valley, is very barren of fossils. I could not meet with or hear of any of those interesting fish-jaws, spines, and palatal teeth, so numerous along its northern sides at Oreton and Farlow.