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were found. Thence to South Cerney, the Church Steeple of 

 which had been seriously damaged by lightning, the repairs of 

 which, we trust, may spare the very curious Norman carvings (so 

 resembling those of Quennington as to appear to have been the 

 work of the same artist) ; and returning by Siddington, where 

 the attention of the section was called to a Norman font, a memo- 

 rial window of the Langley family, and to the very recent, but, to 

 us who knew him, not less interesting object, the memorial win- 

 dow to the late Eector, the Kev. Henry J. Bolland. 



I am glad to avail myself of Mr. Jones's Report of this section. 



" Despite the combined attractions of the society of the ladies, 

 the far-famed beauties of Oakley Park, and the botanical* eloquence 

 of a Buckman, certain members there were who decided upon 

 visiting other localities. Mr. Pooley kindly took these individuals 

 under his charge, and drove them to a Cornbrash quarry, at Sid- 

 dington, in which a very satisfactory series of the fossils common 

 in the bed were obtained by all Acrosalenia hemicidaroides by 

 Miss Slatter, and a fine fish palate by Mr. Jones. Two pits in 

 which the Oxford Clay was worked for brickmaking were then 

 visited, but both were found to bo exceedingly unfossiliferous, 

 furnishing only young specimens of Q-ryphaea dilatata, Ammonites 

 Lamberti, fragments of another small Ammonite too imperfect for 

 identification, and one good specimen of the upper valve of Ostrea 

 deltoidea. One of the workmen exhibited two good specimens of 

 Ammonites macrocephalus, hitherto supposed by English geolo- 

 gists to be a Cornbrash form, but maintained by Dr. Oppel, in 

 his work on the Juraformation, now in course of publication, 

 to be distinctive of the Kelloway group, and not to occur below 

 the grey clay which rests upon the Cornbrash, and, according to 

 his view, forms the basis of the Calloviau. 



In the ponds formed by the excavation of the brick-clay, the 

 common Stickleback Q-asterosteus aculeatus abounds, although no 

 connection with any stream or watercourse could be discovered. 

 It was suggested that some ingenious member of the Club might 

 favour it with a paper upon this subject, not a whit inferior in 

 interest to the celebrated treatise on the origin of tittlebats in 

 the Twickenham ponds, by the renowned Mr. Pickwick. LymnsBus 

 auricularius was there also in great force, appearing upon the 

 Cotteswolds to take the place of L. pereger in similar situations 

 in the vale. 



" Proceeding to South Cerney, Mr. Pooley called the attention 

 of the party to the Church Steeple, which had been recently dam- 

 aged by lightning, so much as, in the opinion of the incumbent, to 

 render it unsafe for the performance of the usual services, and he 

 is now in consequence seeking funds for its due restoration. It 

 appears that the electric fluid first put to flight the weathercock 

 from his proud position ; so alarmed old Time in the personality of 

 the clock that it retreated about four inches downwards; displaced 

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