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^cofogicar Section. 



President ... C. I. Gardiner, Esq. 



|ORE interest has been shown in the doings of 

 this Section this year than in former years. 

 More fossil hunters have come out both on 

 the excursions of the whole Society and on 

 the small sectional excursions. 



A prize of a geological hammer was 

 given to A. A. Roberts for the best collection 

 of fossils made during the Easter holidays, and another to D. L. 

 Solomon for the best collection made during the Summer term. 



On the Andoversford excursion we first visited the quarry just 

 behind Whittington village and a little to the North-East of it. 

 Here some lo feet of a pink Oolite Limestone is seen and contains 

 numerous Terebratula fimbria. Some 50 feet higher up the hill 

 side there is a larger quarry showing about 18 feet of Notgrove 

 Freestone at the top and Gryphite Grit below. The latter's 

 presence being inferred from the abundant occurrence of blocks 

 with Gryphaa in them, but the beds below the Notgrove Freestone 

 are now entirely obscured by detritus. Pholadomya fidicula and 

 Pholadomya Heraultii were abundant. 



We then went on to the quarry in the Stonesfield Slate where 

 we obtained Ostroea acuminata, Nerinea, several Terebratuloe and 

 Rhynconellce, an Ammonite, five specimens of one species of coral, 

 and a Trigonia. 



The excursion to Cleeve Hill turned out the best for the 

 Geological Section. We visited a quarry in the T. fimbria zone 

 and also Rolling Bank Quarry, where fossils are specially 

 abundant. H. Williams, Brierley, Stokes, Solomon and Mills 

 proved very energetic in spite of a roasting sun. 



