C.C. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



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GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



President: C. I. Gardiner, Esq. 



N last year's Report an appeal was made for fossils from 

 the Lias clay of the district, and a fair number of 

 fossils were obtained by M. Walker from the brickpit 

 at the bottom of Leckhampton Hill which is opened 

 in that formation. 



Few members of the Society seem to think it 

 worth their while to present fossils to the School 

 Museum ; this is a great mistake as we have no good local collection 

 and such a collection is one which our School Museum should 

 contain. 



During the Easter term excursions to Leckhampton Hill were 

 made by Thornhill, James, N. Porteous, and Pownall, who collected 

 chiefly from the Oolite beds. During the Summer term the excursions 

 of the whole Society to Witcomb and Withington proved the most 

 successful from' the Geologists' point of view. 



In the pit at the top of the Oolite escarpment, near Birdlip, N. 

 Porteous got Rhynconella Subtetrahedra, Terebratula Globata, Avicula 

 Inoequivalvis, and Serpuloe, while Wheatcroft got Rhynconella 

 Subtetrahedra, Rhyconella Angulata, Terebratula Globata, and Avicula 

 Inoequivalvis, the beds from which they collected being the Upper 

 Trigonia Grit. It was from this bed, too, that fossils were obtained in 

 the neighbourhood of Withington. 



The Museum is now in the process of being re-arranged. One 

 of the standing cases in the middle of the room is being utilised as 

 a mineralogical case, and another for a collection of local fossils. 



Those Geologists who hammer away up on Leckhampton Hill 

 will no doubt occasionally raise their eyes from the pieces of Oolite 

 they are chipping and look across the Valley of the Severn to the 

 hills in the distance, and the hills which are visible are, it is easy to 

 see, of very different outline to that of the Cotteswolds, of which 

 Leckhampton forms a part. The Malverns with their 



