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the summit of May Hill, passing by the way from the "Wenlock Shale to 

 the second Limestone, known as the Woolhope Limestone, which rests in 

 its turn against the Llandovery Sandstone, of which the central dome of 

 the hill is constituted. 



From these last-mentioned beds the following characteriBtic fossils 

 were collected : 



Atrypa hemisphoenca, Pentamerus lyratus, 



Orthis calUgramma, Rhynchonella decemplicata, 



Pentamerus lens, Petraia suhdupUcata. 



The cold wind did not permit the party to linger long on the summit of 

 May HlU, where search was in vain made in their usual haunts for 

 the peculiar coleoptera which are known to frequent that locality. 



Dinner was prepared at the Eed Lion, at Huntley, where a party 

 of sixteen or seventeen assembled. After dinner the Secretary addressed a 

 few observations to the club on the subject of the beds of gravel known 

 to geologists as "raised beaches," so frequent on the flanks of the 

 Cotteswolds. 



Edmund Peobtn, Esq., of Huntley, exhibited a stuffed specimen 

 of the common Marten-cat {Martes foina, Gmel.), which had been trapped 

 only a few days previously, after committing sad havoc among his poultry. 

 It had taken up its quarters in a barn, a somewhat unusual place of abode 

 for an animal whose habitual resort is to woods and places remote 

 from the dwellings of man. Professor Bell, in his work on British 

 Quadrupeds, notices this exceptional trait in its character, which seems to 

 constitute one of the more marked points of difference between it and its 

 closely aUied congener the Pine Marten (Martes ahietum). 



A paper was read by Mr. Witchell upon a section of the Lower 

 and Middle Lias near Stroud, exposed in the course of excavations, which 

 have of late been carried on in the formation of sewage tanks. This paper, 

 which was illustrated by a section, was of value aa affording carefdl 

 measurements of beds rarely so completely exposed, and accxirate 

 observations by which to test their relative value to one another, and 

 their bearings upon similar deposits elsewhere. 



On Wednesday, 25th July, the club, associated with the Archaeological 

 Institute of Great Britain, visited Chepstow, and other places in its 

 neighbourhood. The proceedings of the day had reference entirely 

 to matters of antiquarian interest, of which the Cotteswold Club 

 has always taken cognizance; and the present was regarded as a 

 favourable occasion for shewing the sympathy of the club with this 

 important subject of enquiry, aa well as with the learned and 

 distinguished body of antiquaries, of whose congress at Gloucester this 

 meeting was the concluding event. A large party, enlivened by the 



