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former gentleman considering a large portion of the shaft as 
representing the Forest Marble, the latter considering it as 
wholly belonging to the Great Oolite, and contending that certain 
clay beds, which occur higher in the series, where the true Brad- 
ford Clay is absent, present a natural division and one which can 
be carried out through a wide extent in this district. Ata later 
period of the meeting, the Secretary presented a section of this 
well with others of the neighbourhood, and read a paper on the 
Geology of the water-bearing beds about Cirencester. 
Having transacted the usual business of the Club, the members 
and friends, to the number of 40, sat down to a substantial dinner, 
which, from its abundance and small cost, was certainly a convine- 
ing proof that our dinner bill need not be extravagant when we 
have a liberal landlord to deal with; at the same time we must 
bear in mind that our long rambles make us good trenchermen, 
whilst our moderation in imbibition tends much to limit the usuai 
profit, so that we may not wonder in these days of dearness that, 
even at the Lamb at Cheltenham, a petition was preferred after 
our last dinner there for additional pay. 
Well, dinner over, after the usual toasts, and one to the health 
of the re-elected President and Secretary, followed by that of 
Professor Ramsay, the Director of the Ordnance Geological Sur- 
vey, who honored us with his presence, a paper was read by Dr. 
Wright, on the section of Frocester Hill, the object of which was 
to show that a certain bed at the base of the Inferior Oolite, and 
formerly referred to that rock, should, in the Doctor’s opinion, be 
held as part of the Lias; th's view was supported by a reference 
more particularly to various Cephalopoda, (principally Ammonites 
and Belemnites,) most of which are peculiar to the bed itself, 
whilst others are such as belong to the Upper Lias, and at this 
meeting was introduced the Ammonites bifrons, which was trium- 
phantly pointed out as proving the case; and indeed so startling 
was the production of this shell, as I understood from the bed in 
dispute, as in a great measure to stifle discussion upon the subject 
until the matter had been further looked into; and herein we 
have much to thank the learned Doctor for in directing our more 
particular attention to one of the most interesting sections in our 
county. The result, however, of my own labours at Frocester 
Hill, leads me to conclude that the Ammonites bifrons in question 
was obtained from a bed nearly 80 feet below what has been held 
to be the basement bed of the Inferior Oolite (the Cephalopoda 
bed of Dr. Wright), and as much as 20 feet from the top of the 
Upper Lias, and consequently that distance below the Inferior 
Oolite Sands of the Ordnance Surveyors. However, as this 
subject came before us at the Painswick meeting and again at 
Cheltenham, I shall shortly refer to it in another part of this 
address, only pointing out that the mistake is easily made, inas- 
much as the steep scarp at Frocester has long been exposed to the 
action of the atmosphere, and hence its included iron has become 
