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the Inferior Oolite into three zones, whereof he styles the lower the 
zone of Ammonites Murchisone ; the middle the zone of Ammonites 
Humphresianus ; and the upper the zone of Ammonites Parkinsoni ; 
these subdivisons having different degrees of development in different 
parts of the counties of Gloucester, Somerset, and Dorset, being 
thick, thin, or absent, as the case may be. The upper zone is, he 
states, the most persistent throughout England, France, and Ger- 
many. The middle zone is only feebly represented in the northern 
Cotteswolds, but fairly developed at Dundry; the lower zone having 
its best development near Cheltenham. 
The Charlcombe and Limpley Stoke beds near Bath, are referred 
by the Doctor to the upper zone, the middle and lower zones being 
absent. 
For a more ample and complete exposition of Dr. Wright’s views 
upon this subject, I would refer enquirers to the very learned paper 
upon ‘The Subdivisons of the Inferior Oolite in the South of 
England,” read before the Geological Society, in April, 1859, and 
now published in fhe February number for the present year of the 
Quarterly Journal of the same Society. It is a masterly resumé of 
the entire subject, conducted with admirable patience and research, 
and illustrated by an amount of learning both literary and paleon- 
tological, which must ever render the paper indispensable as a work 
of reference to all students of the Oolitic Series, whether they accept 
the Doctor’s limitations and subdivisions or not. 
May 11.—The Club met at the ‘“‘ Lamb Inn,” Cheltenham, and 
mustered in considerable force. After breakfast, an omnibus con- 
veyed the party to the foot of Cleeve Hill, where the Geological Sec- 
tion, under the direction of the late President, and Messrs. Brodie, 
Norwood, and Jones, proceeded by the lane which passes between 
the “ Rising Sun” and Mr. Dobell’s residence at “‘ Cleeve Clouds,” 
to investigate the stratigraphical position of the so-called ‘‘ Road- 
stone”’ of the district, the characteristic fossil of which is Terebratula 
Phillips. While the Entomological Section, represented by the 
President, and the Rev. T. A. Marshall, took the lower ground 
through the village of Bishop’s Cleeve. 
To the Secretary, I am indebted for the following account of the 
proceedings of the Geologists, and for the very valuable list of fossils 
annexed, of which few could have furnished so ample and reliable 
a catalogue :— 
These beds—those containing the ‘‘ Roadstones”—are clearly 
much out of place, and must, when ‘‘ in situ,” have been superior 
to those of the Fimbria Stage, which now cap the hill immediately 
above them Previously to having seen them, the Secretary, from 
the account given of their fossil contents by Messrs. Norwood and 
Bromby, ventured to assign to them a stratigraphical position, and 
the subsequent examination of their organic contents, as well as of 
their lithological characters, confirmed him in the opinion he had 
expressed ; namely, that these beds are the equivalents of those, 
which at Ravensgate, Cooper’s Hill, and Haresfield, immediately 
