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were found. Thence to South Cerney, the Church Steeple of 
which had been seriously damaged by lightning, the repairs of 
which, we trust, may spare the very curious Norman carvings (so 
resembling those of Quennington as to appear to have been the 
work of the same artist); and returning by Siddington, where 
the attention of the section was called to a Norman font, a memo- 
rial window of the Langley family, and to the very recent, but, to 
us who knew him, not less interesting object, the memorial win- 
dow to the late Rector, the Rev. Henry J. Bolland. 
I am glad to avail myself of Mr. Jones’s Report of this section. 
“Despite the combined attractions of the society of the ladies, 
the far-famed beauties of Oakley Park, and the botanical* eloquence 
of a Buckman, certain members there were who decided upon 
visiting other localities. Mr. Pooley kindly took these individuals 
under his charge, and drove them to a Cornbrash quarry, at Sid- 
dington, in which a very satisfactory series of the fossils common 
in the bed were obtained by all—Acrosalenia hemicidaroides by 
Miss Slatter, anda fine fish palate by Mr. Jones. Two pits in 
which the Oxford Clay was worked for brickmaking were then 
visited, but both were found to be exceedingly unfossiliferous, 
furnishing only young specimens of Gryphea dilatata, Ammonites 
Lamberti, fragments of another small Ammonite too imperfect for 
identification, and one good specimen of the upper valve of Ostrea 
deltoidea. One of the workmen exhibited two good specimens of 
Ammonites macrocephalus, hitherto supposed by English geolo- 
gists to be a Cornbrash form, but maintained by Dr. Oppel, in 
his work on the Juraformation, now in course of publication, 
to be distinctive of the Kelloway group, and not to occur below 
the grey clay which rests upon the Cornbrash, and, according to 
his view, forms the basis of the Callovian. 
In the ponds formed by the excavation of the brick-clay, the 
common Stickleback Gasterosteus aculeatus abounds, although no 
connection with any stream or watercourse could be discovered. 
It was suggested that some ingenious member of the Club might 
favour it with a paper upon this subject, not a whit inferior in 
interest to the celebrated treatise on the origin of tittlebats in 
the Twickenham ponds, by the renowned Mr. Pickwick. Lymneus 
auricularius was there also in great force, appearing upon the 
Cotteswolds to take the place of L. pereger in similar situations 
in the vale. 
“ Proceeding to South Cerney, Mr. Pooley called the attention 
of the party to the Church Steeple, which had been recently dam- 
aged by lightning, so much as, in the opinion of the incumbent, to 
render it unsafe for the performance of the usual services, and he 
is now in consequence seeking funds for its due restoration. It 
appears that the electric fluid first put to flight the weathercock 
from his proud position; so alarmed old Time in the personality of 
the clock that it retreated about four inches downwards; displaced 
* Substituted for flowery. 
