of tho Severn, with an abrupt cliff, showing very beautifully in a 

 section of nearly 100 feet in depth, the junction of the lower Lias 

 with the upper beds of the new Red Sandstone. 



Mr Brodie, in his work on Fossil Insects, has described tho 

 section of the upper part of this cliff — but as the paper I am now 

 reading is intended solely for distribution to the members of our own 

 Club — and its value, if there be any, is only that of a hand-book to 

 portions of our own county — I trust he will permit me to copy it. 



Beginning at the top, we find, ft. in. 



1. Black Clay (to the depth of) „ 3 



2. Hard blue limestone, with ostreae and other shells .... 4 



3. Yellow shale, with traces of fucoids , 10 



4. Grey and blue limestone, " Insect limestone " 5 



5. Marly clay , 5 3 



6. Hard yellow nobular limestone — with shells like cyclas 



a sp. of renio or myacites — Plants (naiades) cypris, 



and — rarely — scales of fish 6 to 8 



7. Yellow clay , 9 



8. Black shale .•••"•: .• 3 ° 



9. Hard grey stone with impressions of fucoides in the 



upper surface, with scales and teeth of fish 1 



10. Black Slaty clay. 



11. Pecten bed — a hard dingy brown stone, with much Py- 



rites, and Pectens and other shells 4 



12. Black shale 8 



13. Bone bed — here a hard thin stratum full of Pyrites, and 



composed of bones, scales and teeth of fish ; connected 

 with this is a white and yellow sandstone full of casts 

 of Palustra arenicola 3 



14. Black shale 2 



This reposes on green and red conchoidal marl, forming the 



upper beds of the new Red Sandstone, exposed to the depth of about 

 6.5 feet. The total height of the cliff is nearly 100 feet, and the 

 beds dip gradually to the S.E. — Fossil Insects, p. 58. 



From the cliff we returned to Gloucester; Mr. Buckman, during 

 our walk finding specimens of the Lathyrus nissolia, or crimson 

 Grass Vetch, and some other plants of interest. We also saw, so 

 far as any of us had observed, the first wheat of the season in ear. 



At our after dinner proceedings, Mr. Buckman announced a new 

 habitat for the Thlaspi perfoliatum, which had been discovered by 

 Mr. Bell, a student at the Royal Agricultural College ; this was in 

 a Great Oolite quarry on the top of the Sapperton tunnel, and it was 

 remarked that at its original station, at Burford, Oxon, and its other 

 Gloucestershire habitat near Stow-on-the-"Wold, from both which 

 it is now said to be extinct, it had always effected this particular 

 stratum of the Oolitic limestones. Mr. B. also made some remarks 

 upon a new species of star fish, which he exhibited from the Great 

 Oolite of Minchinhampton, which was observed to present an 

 intermediate form between those previously described from the 



