THE ANCIENT STRAITS OF MALVERN.

AN ESSAY

ON

THE FORMER MARINE CONDITIONS

WHICH SEPARATED

ENGLAND AND WALES,

AND AN

ACCOUNT OF THE PROBABLE PHYSICAL CHANGES

BY WHICH THE

PRINCIPALITY

HAS BECOME UNITED TO

GREAT BRITAIN.

BY

JAMES BUCKMAN, F.G.S.

PROFESSOR OF GEOLOGY AND BOTANY IN THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL
COLLEGE, FELLOW OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH,
HONORARY LOCAL SECRETARY OF THE BOTANICAL SOCIETY

OF LONDON, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE CHELTENHAM
LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, OF THE
GLOUCESTER PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY
SOCIETY, Etc.

LONDON:

LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, AND LONGMANS.

1849.

PREFACE DEDICATORY.

TO THE PRESIDENTS AND MEMBERS

OF

THE COTTESWOLD AND WORCESTERSHIRE

NATURALISTS' CLUBS.

GENTLEMEN,

THIS little Book is especially dedicated to you, inasmuch as, in addition to the kind welcome I have ever received among you, the facts advanced are amongst those which it has ever been the pleasure of both the Cotteswold and Worcestershire Naturalists' Clubs to investigate; indeed many of the observations herein recorded have been made during the periodical rambles of the members, and might, therefore, with much reason, be considered rather as Notes by yourselves, than original remarks of my own.