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indicating the presence of true passage-beds between the Lower and 

 Middle Lias. 



The following list of fossils from the uppermost beds of the Lower 

 Lias was tabulated on the spot : — 

 Ammonites Henley i, Modiola scalprum, 



maculatus. Area, sp. 



Pecten equivalvis, small variety. PUcatula spinosa, 

 Unicardium cardioides, Gryphoea gigantea, small variety, 



Crenatula ventricosa, Annelide perforations. 



Gresslya, sp. 



The following rather local plants were noticed by the Botanists of 

 the party on Alderton Hill. 



Carduus eriophorus, Filago germanica, 



Rumex acetosella, Allium vineale. 



From the " brick-pits" the party adjourned to Dumbleton House, 

 the residence of Mr. E. Holland, M.P. for Evesham, who had 

 invited the Club to partake of his hospitality. In the interval before 

 dinner, the Geologists availed themselves of the opportunity of 

 examining the large and beautiful collection of fossils from the 

 neighbouring quarries, which have been collected and arranged by 

 Miss Holland, in a manner which does infinite credit to the energy, 

 perseverance, and intelligence which she has brought to bear upon 

 the work. Amongst these relics of an extinct creation were rare 

 and beautiful forms, new to many of the Naturalists present, who, 

 without the opportunity thus afforded, would have gone away with a 

 very meagre conception of the riches of the wonderfully prolific beds 

 from which these fossils had been derived. I am happy to have it in 

 my power to inform the Club that our colleague. Dr. Wright, has, 

 at my request, undertaken the task of drawing up a Catalogue of this 

 collection, allocating the fossils to their respective positions in the 

 strata, and illustrating their history by a careful description of the 

 beds to which they belong. To this proposition Miss Holland has 

 most readily given her consent ; and in the hands of so competent a 

 palaeontologist as Dr. Wright, I am sure we may look forward to 

 a valuable paper on these Dumbleton beds. 



After dinner, two papers of considerable interest were read to the 

 meeting : one by the Rev. W. S. Symonds, on " The Drifts of the 

 Severn, Avon, Wye, and Usk;" the other by the Rev. F. Smythe, 

 of Churchdown, on " The Upper Beds of Churchdown Hill." 



This was the final meeting of the season, and, with the exception 

 of a gathering of Naturalists at Worcester, on the 17th of September, 

 was the last occasion upon which the Club met together. On this 



