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The next Meeting of the Club was held at Newnham, on the 

 13th of July. 



The first point visited was Westbury Cliff, which has lately 

 been carefully examined by the Secretary and Mr. Lucy, who 

 have noted a section differing so materially from those already 

 published, that by permission I will proceed to incorporate it in 

 this resume of our proceedings. 



Section of Garden Cliff, Westbury, by J. JONES and W. C. LUCY, 



Upon the Green and Red Marls of the " New Red Sandstone," 

 dipping 2 S.S.E., which are here exposed to the depth of 70 or 

 80 feet, rest conformably : 



1. A band of hard black Shale in which we first find 

 coprolites which appears to be identical with those 

 of the bone-bed above ... ... ,.. ... 2 feet 



2. A band composed partly of grit and partly of iron 

 pyrites, its weathered surface exposing many teeth, 

 coprolites, and shells of Pullastra arenicola ..5 



3. Black Shale, like No. 1 2 



4. Band like No. 2, with Pullastra arenicola ... 8 inches 



5. Black Shale as Nos. 1 and 2 2 feet 



6. BONE BED, consisting chiefly of Pyrites, contain- 

 ing fine specimens of teeth, coprolites, palates 

 bones, &c. ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 inch 



7. Black Shale as before, with coprolites, &c. ... 6 feet 



8. Pecten-bed ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 inches 



9. Black Shale 4 feet 



10 Pullastra bed 1 inch 



11 Shale 9 feet 



12. Grey nodular limestone of uncertain fracture, 



containing abundantly in places Estheria ... I foot 



13 Clayey Shale 1 foot 



14. Limestone band containing, at its lower portion, a 

 Myacites, probably M. liassinus of Quenstedt, 

 and above Monotis decussata in great numbers. Brodie 

 says also Cypris plants, Cyclas, and fish- scales ... 



15. Greyish blue Clay 2 feet 



16. Bottom-bed with Modiola and Ostrea minima 

 Although not traced at this particular spot, from other Sections 

 in the neighbourhood, it is known that the beds distinguished 

 successively by Ammonites planorbis and Johnstoni, Ammonites 

 angulatus, Bucklandi, abtusus, oxygnotus, and raricostatus, and 

 Pentacrinus tuberculatus, occur in due order, and accompanied to 

 a great extent by the same fossils which are found in each of 

 these beds of the same relative age in Germany. 



The considerations arrising from an examination of the 

 preceding Section are of great interest, and suggest a subject for 



