Lias, Mr. Brodie relieved him, and described the Insects of the 

 Stonesfield Slate, which he had been the first to study and describe. 

 He observed that most of the forms found in this formation were 

 nearly allied to the recent genera now found in temperate climates, and 

 it is probable that they, together with the plants which have been 

 recently figured by Mr. Buckman, for the Geological Society, had 

 been carried out to sea by large rivers for many miles. Mr. Buckman 

 then continued the series by describing the Icthyosaurus of the Lias 

 and the great variety of Ammonites found in that formation — and it 

 is on record that ho promised us a paper on this interesting group 

 — (and if the said promise* be not redeemed, the sooner the Attorney 

 General of the Club commences proceedings both for this and for 

 one long promised on the mistletoe bough, the better, as his papers 

 are far too valuable to be lost for want of exertion). 



Mr. Brodie then did the honors of the Inferior Oolite, commencing 

 with Mr. Strickland's section of Leckhampton Hill, and passing to 

 the Great Oolite with its numerous Starfishes (the Astropecten 

 Cotswoldice, (Buckman,) among others, which it was unanimously 

 voted should be adopted as the Great Seal of our Club) to the 

 Bradford Clay, (of which formation, be it noted, that the remains of 

 between a hundred and fifty and two hundred species have been 

 collected at the Tetbury Road Station,) and concluding with the 

 Forest Marble. 



After this our worthy Secretary, Sir Thomas Tancred, read us a 

 resume of the proceedings of the Club for the past year, the sites of our 

 future operations were fixed, and the large sum of two shillings a 

 head being voted as our annual subscription, we adjourned to dinner 

 at the Swan ; and in the evening Mr. Buckman read us his paper on 

 the materials used in constructing the tesselated pavements at 

 Cirencester (illustrated by his very beautiful coloured tracings of the 

 pavements) ; and Mr. Lycett read another on the Trichites, a shell 

 of the Oolite formation. 



Mr. "Wm. Henry Hyett, of Painswick House, and Mr. ¥m. 

 Vernon Guise, of Elmore, were then elected members, and the 

 President and Secretary, it was agreed, should be permitted to try 

 whether they could do better for the ensuing year than they had 

 done for the last ; and after some discussion on the inconvenience 

 frequently occasioned by members not replying to the Secretary's 

 notice of the meetings, and thereby rendering it impossible to know 

 what preparations to make — it was voted, " That if members do not 

 answer the Secretary* % notice they will not be expected ; but that if they 

 give notice of their attendance at any meeting and do not come, they 

 shall be charged with such share of the Secretary's liabilities for the day, 

 as the members present shall find necessary, unless they be prevented by 

 illness or professional duties." 



On April the 30 th, we commenced the meetings of our fifth 

 summer in the same spot in which we had first assembled to call 

 our Club into existence, the (to us at least) ever-memorable Birdlip 

 Hill. And, many as are the points of the Cotteswolds that we have 



