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The horns of Bos primigenitis were found at no great distance from the 

 mouth of the " Eoyal Drough," the great drain of the district, along 

 the sides of which the deposit of peat has been traced for a distance of 

 nearly two miles. 



Wednesday, 19th August. The Club met at Cheltenham with the 

 intention of visiting the Marlstone Quarries at Gretton, but the weather 

 proving unfavourable, it was decided to limit the day's excursion to a 

 visit to Cleeve Hill, with a view to a re-examination, in company with 

 Dr. Harvey Holl, of the beds at the Rolling-bank Quarry, respecting 

 the correlation of which. Dr. Holl has put forth opinions not in accord- 

 ance with those held by Dr. Wright, and published by him in detail in 

 the transactions of the Club for the year 1860. Dr. Wright there gives 

 it as his opinion that the beds in question represent the Middle 

 Division or Humphresianus zone of the N^orthern Cotswolds, capped by 

 the Lower Trigonia Gi-it, and resting upon the Oolite Marl. 



In the proceedings of the Geological Society for the year 1863 will be 

 found a paper by Dr. Harvey Holl on the " Correlation of the several 

 subdivisions of the Inferior Oolite in the Middle and South of England," 

 in which the author takes a view of the position of the beds referred to, 

 different from that advocated by Dr. Wright, and assigns to them a 

 position higher in the series. 



Dr. Holl's views, as furnished to me by him, are as follows : — 



" We first examined a section of the Peagrit, which I should think 

 was fully 40 or 45 feet in thickness, the lower 25 of which was a rather 

 coarse-grained Freestone, while the upper 20 was a yellowish-coloured 

 Marly Oolite, pisolitic only in certain layers; and sui-mounting this was 

 the lower part of the Lower Freestone. Ascending the hill we next 

 visited a quarry in the Lower Freestone, capped by the Oolite Marl. 



" We then crossed over the out-crop of the Upper Freestone, and 

 examined its junction with the Lower Trigonia Grit, as seen in a number 

 of small pits on the Northern side of the ravine, which runs eastward 

 to Postlip. Below the Lower Trigonia Grit was a bed of brown and 

 blue Clay, probably the equivalent of Dr. Wright's Chemnitzia Clay. 

 This was underlaid by hard brown coarse-grained Limestone containing 

 fragments of shells, and below this was a bed, about three feet in thick- 

 ness, of yellow and brownish Sand, with lenticular masses of Sandstone, 

 which passed downwards into a more or less ferruginous sandy Oolite. 

 These beds below the Clay constitute the upper part of the Upper 

 Freestone." 



