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On the 25th of August, the Club held their last meeting for the 
season, at Dumbleton, in Gloucestershire, having. been’ invited 
to Mr. Holland’s, at Dumbleton, House, There. they inspected 
a choice collection of*fossils belonging to Miss Holland, among 
which the Fish, Sepia, Insect-remains, and Crustacea, from 
the upper Lias of the adjacent quarries were particularly worthy of 
notice, and among them were some’ rare and unique species. 
After partaking of luncheon, kindly provided by Mr. Holland, 
the party walked through the pretty grounds to Dumbleton hill, 
when the Geologists, including the ladies, set to work to break 
up the fish bed, from whence most of the best fossils have been 
procured. 
The lower lias was nowhere exposed in the ascent, but. the 
middle lias was well represented by the marlstone abounding in 
fossils, capped by the clays and marls with the included ‘‘ fish 
bed” of the upper Lias, which forms the entire portion 
of the upper part of the hill, and must be quite 100 feet thick, 
and, though occupying a large area in Gloucestershire, 
is rarely exposed, and probably reaches its maximum thick- 
ness of 300 feet at Cleeve Hill, near Cheltenham. The same 
beds are seen at Alderton resting on marlstone, while at Frampton 
the latter, much water-worn, is only exposed. These quarries 
were all visited by the club, and on Alderton Hill, where the 
finest view is obtained, Mr. Brodie gave a brief exposition of 
the geology of the district, which included a wide strata- 
graphical range, from the great Oolite and Stonesfield slate of the 
distant Cotswolds, to the Silurians and Oleni schists of the 
Malverns. Unfortunately the weather was too showery to obtain 
many fossils from the quarries. The species in the marlstone 
consist chiefly of shells, among which were Ammonites, Nautili, 
Belemnites, Pholadomya,Modiola, Lima, Pecten, Ostrea, Gryphca, 
