36 C.C. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



President: C. I. Gardiner, Esq. 



|he excursions to Wainlode and Whittington were 

 the ones which proved best for the hammer- 

 bearers. At Wainlode, where the White Lias 

 is seen over the New Red Sandstone, several 

 fish remains were found, but the search for 

 these was conducted under rather difficult and 

 dangerous conditions, owing to the perpen- 

 dicularity of the section, and the possibility of immersion in the 

 Severn if one lost one's foothold. At Whittington we went up to the 

 exposure of the Stonesfield slate to the North where we found the 

 typical fossil of those beds Ostrcea Acuminata and also a specimen 

 of Ammonites. 



During the year several small excursions have been made to 

 Leckhampton where fossils have been collected by Wolff, Haldinstein, 

 and others. Several of these have been put in the Museum. 



We are still in want of a good collection of fossils from the 

 Leckhampton Hill brickpit, and as this is not a mile from the College 

 it is to be hoped that some member of the Society will manage to 

 procure us some specimens. 



As mentioned in the Preface, a collection of fossils has been 

 presented to the Museum by the Rev. E. Montford. The most 

 important gaps in our general collection have been in the Primary 

 and in the later Tertiary beds. The collection made by the Rev. 

 E. T. Griffiths, and presented in 1897 by his son, has gone a long 

 way to filling up the void in our collection where the Early Primary 

 fossils should have been. This collection, every one of the fossils 

 from which has been labelled as coming from "The Griffiths' 

 Collection," was especially rich in Trilobites, some of the specimens 

 from the Wenlock Limestone of Malvern and Dudley being hardly 

 possible to beat. Other specimens from the Gault and other later 

 beds were also of great value. 



