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Aud the Secretary said the Egyptians had giv'n the moderns a hint, 

 For Chevalier Bunsen had found twenty thousand layers of mud 

 Lying a-top of the Ark where it rested after the Flood. 

 Then Mr. Baker got up and said that he shouldn't blame us 

 If we waited to hear the opinion of his old friend Ignoramus ; 

 But we couldn't none of us wait, so thanks were voted to all, 

 And we clos'd with a neat little speech from Mr. Coroner Ball," 



On Wednesday, 9th May, 1860, the first field meeting of the season -was 

 held at the George Hotel, Stroud. After breakfast the members proceeded 

 to Swift's HiU and Bodborough, at both of which stations good geological 

 sections present themselves, and a characteristic series of fossils were 

 obtained and tabulated. 



The following observations from the pen of Dr. Weioht embody 

 an accurate summary of our proceedings, and register useful facts for the 

 service of geologists. 



"At Swift's Hill we saw a good section of the Oolite Marl, which had 

 some very fossiliferous bands containing Lima Pontonis, Lye, in considerable 

 numbers and in good preservation. We likewise found several specimens 

 of Thamnasircsa and Isastraea. Thamnastroea Defraneii, Edw. and Haime, 

 was most abundant. A specimen of Ammonites Murchisonoe was likewise 

 found, which was considered important as Ammonites are not common 

 in the Oolite Marl. None of the Oolite Marl Brachiopoda were found. 

 The beds are considerably displaced by a fault which traverses the rock in 

 this section. The limestone is concretionary, and the Conchifera occur in 

 masses, the valves of the shells being all detached. 



Rodborough Hill affords a fine exposure of the zone of Ammonites 

 Parhinsoni. The beds are very fossiliferous, but the shells are seldom 

 extracted entire. The following strata are exposed : 



(A.) Tipper Trigonia Grit. A light coloured sandy limestone, with 

 two or more fossiliferous bands containing Conchifera. The shells are in 

 the condition of crystallized carbonate of lime. The bed is about eight 

 feet thick. 



(B.) Gryphite Grit. A brownish concretionary sUiceo-calcareous rock, 

 with valves of Gryphtm sublolata, Desh., and valves of other Conchifera, 

 one to two feet thick. 



(C.) Lower Trigonia Grit. A band of brownish argillaceous limestone 

 crowded with shells, which occur in masses piled on one another so closely 

 that is impossible to obtain one specimen without fracturing many others. 

 This shell-bed is one foot thick, and rests on a thick-bedded oolitic 

 limestone, bored by Annelida. The bored bed is a persistent stratum in 

 this district, and marks a period of repose between the change of 

 conditions which prevailed between the middle and upper zones of 

 the Inferior Oolite." 



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