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so oxidised as to render the clays and sands much of the same 

 colour, and besides the upper sands have slipped down the slopes 

 and become intermixed with the upper beds of the Lias. 



The business, then, of our last College meeting concluded with 

 the Secretary calling attention to a Section extending from the 

 Yale of Gloucester, below Birdlip, along the Roman Road to 

 Stratton St. Margarets ; this, which was the result of the joint 

 labours of our then Professor of Engineering, Mr. Armstrong, 

 with a Class of Engineering Students, and myself with a Geolo- 

 gical Class, had been carefully worked out in an Easter vacation ; 

 and I have at this meeting the pleasure of introducing to your 

 notice another section, done in like manner, extending from the 

 College through Moreton- in- Marsh to Shipston-on-Stour, in 

 Worcestershire. The great interest of these Sections is that they 

 have not been made hypothetically, but are the result of a syste- 

 matic and combined survey, the Engineers taking the levels of the 

 country surveyed, whilst the Geologists marked the strata, col- 

 lected fossils, noted facts connected with quarries, wells, and the 

 like, so that we hope these Sections may be satisfactorily appealed 

 to for settling some important practical questions. 



I cannot conclude my remarks upon matters connected with 

 this meeting, and more especially in the presence of ladies, with- 

 out referring to the charming wind-up of the day and a most 

 agreeable one too afforded by an invitation to Mrs. Haygarth's 

 tea-table. This kind lady evidently understands the natural 

 history of naturalists, a fact which you will recognise more keenly 

 when you know that the meeting of to-day resulted in the wish 

 of Mrs. and Mr. Haygarth. 



May 20. The first summer meeting was appointed for the 

 Painswick district, and we have to thank the managers of the 

 Great Western Railway for depositing us at Haresfield, from 

 whence we took the ascent of Beacon Hill, carefully examining 

 the section there presented ; ascending to the quarry we pass over 

 an interesting fault, and at the very brow of the hill the strata have 

 been washed away and the chasms filled up with oolitic debris 

 and shingle, the former offering an example on a small scale of an 

 undercliff, caused by subsidence resulting from the wearing 

 away of the Oolitic Sands and Upper Lias by the Severn Sea, and 

 the latter the result of that shingle deposit which may we traced 

 along the Cotteswold scarps, as so cleverly pointed out by Mr. 

 Hull. During this ramble we examined all the beds of the Infe- 

 rior Oolite, being much assisted herein by the use of a beautifully 

 detailed Section, worked out by our accomplished associate, Mr. 

 Jones, and which, with his permission, I hope to publish in our 

 proceedings. 



June 17. Mitcheldean was the place appointed for this month's 

 meeting, and as I could not attend, I have to thank Mr. Jones, 

 not only for making the necessary arrangements, but for a full 



