38 C.C. NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



1 



President: C. I. Gardiner, Esq. 



HE excursions of the Society proved fairly successful to the 

 fossil collectors this year. During the Andoversford 

 excursion a visit was paid to tlie Sevenhampton pit in 

 the Stonefield s'ates, the highest beds in the Oolite exposed 

 near Cheltenham. There many specimens of Ostrcea acuminata were 

 found and several other fossils. At Wainiode Cliff the thin bed of 

 a sandy nature, in which many small fish teeth and fish scales were 

 found, was sought for with great care and successfully discovered. 

 Every year we go there this bed seems more difficult to get at, as it 

 is getting more and more covered up, and it will not be easily found 

 till a great slip from the cliff face occurs. The limestone band above 

 it, containing Pecten and Euomphalus is now not to be seen, and we 

 seem to have cleared off all the specimens which were to be found 

 in loose blocks lying about half way up the cliff. 



The Colesbourne excursion, as usual, turned out quite blank to 

 the fossil collector, though on the way one sees an interesting example 

 of an old river valley cut down steeply into the hill side. This valley 

 is now quite dry at its upper end, but as one follows the depression 

 one comes to the stream at Pegglesworth which is continuing the 

 cutting as it runs down near Colesbourne. 



A certain amount of fossils have been collected trom the 

 Leckhampton quarries, and the brick-pits at Leckhampton, Battledown 

 and Hewlett's Hill have been searched, Long having been particularly 

 energetic. We still want more fossils from these brickpits i" the 

 Museum. 



The arrangement of the fossils in the Museum has been continued, 

 and the Lower Greensand, Gault, Upper Greensand and Chalk fossils 

 are now nearly arranged, while the arrangement of the Tertiary fossils 



