lower part of this rock and those of the chalk. This specimen is 

 now being figured by Professor Forbes, and what spite its discoverer 

 — like tho cross godmother fairies of old— could have taken to so 

 interesting a species, I know not, but he would give it no better 

 name than Astropecten Bdkeri. 



Mr. Brodio read us his observations made during a tour on the 

 Oolite formation in Lincolnshire, comparing it with that which 

 forms so large a part of our district. 



A comparison of the fossils of the two districts lead to an 

 animated discussion on the identity of tho species of coral found in 

 our Inferior Oolite, with those found in the same formation in 

 Germany; diverging into a discussion on the distinctions between 

 species and varieties, which was prevented from lasting to tho present 

 hour, only, by tho threatened departure of the Cheltenham train, 

 which dispersed our members for the day. 



On July the 30th the Club made a second attempt (having failed 

 in their first, four years before) to discover a specimen of fine 

 weather in the Forest of Dean, and this time we succeeded admirably. 

 Crossing the Severn, at Newnham, we breakfasted, and walked to 

 the Churchyard, commanding a splendid view of the Horse-shoe of 

 tho river, and thence crossing the line of the railway, we ascended 

 the Newnham Baily, the ridge of which, covered with magnificent 

 oak and beech timber, gives views on the one side of the rich and 

 cultivated Vale of the Severn, and on the other of the dark woods 

 of the Forest. Here Sir Martin Crawley Boevey and Dr. Bird, 

 meeting us, guided us through the Abbots woods to the beautiful 

 Sudeley valley, and the iron-stone pits at Shuckmantle, peculiarly 

 rich in their ore, to a huge steam engine on the Cornish principle, 

 erected by Mr. Crawshay to pump the Lightmore coalpits. Mr. 

 Crawshay had kindly given orders not only to permit us to see all 

 we wished, but had also provided us with some trucks and a pair 

 of horses to convey us along the tram-road to near Bullow Pill, from 

 whence we walked to Newnham to partake, inter alia, of a fawn, 

 presented by Sir Martin Crawley Boevey. 



In the course of the day Mr. Jones took a specimen of the 

 Strangalia attenuata beetle. The Scutellaria minor was also 

 gathered ; and the Polypodium oreopteris and Blechnum borealo 

 were found in large numbers. 



In the evening Mr. Lycett's paper on the fossils of the middle 

 division of the Inferior Oolite was read, in his much regretted 

 absence, by the Secretary, and the Club adjourned with many 

 thanks to tho Gentlemen of the Forest who had so kindly assisted us. 



On September 1 7, we met for tho last time that Summer, at the 

 Swan Inn, Wootton-under-Edge, and considering the distance from 

 the homes of most of the Club we had a large attendance of members, 

 besides many friends, who living in tho neighbourhood, greatly 

 assisted us by their local knowledge. 



Ascending by the old road (now nearly disused but more 

 favourable to Geologists from its deep cuttings than the new road) 



