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C.C. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



President 



C. I. Gardiner, Esq 



Members : 

 G. W. Hedley, Esq. A. H. Macdonald, Esq. C. Noad 

 N. Porteous. J. E. Thornhill. 



W. H. Williams. 



GOOD deal of collecting has been done and a collec- 

 tion of local fossils has been started in the Museum. 

 There appears to be no collection of fossils from the 

 Lias of Battledovvn or Leckhampton, and any fossils 

 from these localities would be welcome. Ammonites 

 Henleyi and a large Bivalve probably an Inoceramus 

 seem common at the former place while the latter 

 has yielded many small bivalves and a few ammonites. The brick 

 pit close to Leckhampton Station is another place which would 

 well repay a search, Belemnites and Ammonites being fairly common. 

 The pit near the Workhouse close to Pittville is in quite a 

 different bed of the Lias, and contains Gryphoea incurva and 

 Belemnites. 



Of the localities visited by the Society during the year Wainlode 

 Cliff proved one of the best from the geologists' point of view. 

 Here the fish bed in the Rhoetic Beds, which come above the New 

 Red Sandstone and below the Lias, is seen in the face of a cliff 

 overhanging the Severn. The bed is easily found, a few feet above 

 the Sandstone, and on splitting it up is seen to contain multitudes 

 of scales, bones and teeth of fishes. Higher up in the series a 

 sandy Limestone yielded numerous Pectens. 



The other excursion which proved of extreme interest to the 

 Geological Section was the one to Crickley Hill towards Birdlip. 

 Here the beds immediately above the Upper Freestone, a bed in 

 the Oolite exposed at the top of the face of Leckhampton Hill, are 

 seen on one side of the valley running down to the plain and on 

 the other side is a long line of cliff, due to an old quarry once 





