to have been a love of display and pride of ancestry, and an 

 indiscreet tongue. He Avas a man of noble and princely ideas. 

 He began the foundation of a College at Cambridge, and a 

 hospital at Thornbury. He also contemplated bringing a canal 

 from the Severn to Thornbury, a distance of between 2 and 3 

 miles, traces of which may be seen in the Pithay Field, also 

 between the present Gas works and the Union Workhouse, 

 where it has a width of 42 feet at bottom, and 60 feet at top, 

 cut through very hard magnesian conglomerate. 



Wednesdmj, 7th June. — The Second Field Meeting was held at 

 SWINDON. 



Those who travel by the Great Western Eailway from 

 Gloucester to Swindon, will in their journey, pass over the entire 

 series of beds, known to Geologists under the term " Jurassic," 

 which in this country may be studied, as a whole, in greater 

 completeness than in any other part of the world. Thus it 

 happens that while on the Continent of Euro^De, certain beds are 

 locally more developed than with us, yet those who desire to 

 acquaint themselves' with the phenomena of the entire series, 

 and their relations to one another, must still come to Cheltenham, 

 as the great typical section which supplies the clue to the 

 reading of all the rest. 



Gloucester stands upon the Lower Lias, the base of the whole 

 series. As the rail ascends the escarpment of the Cotteswolds, 

 it passes over the Middle and Upper Lias and the entire thickness 

 of the inferior Oolite. On emerging from the tunnel at 

 Sapperton, the traveller sees the great Oolite Hke a wall upon 

 either hand. At the Tetbury Eoad Station is a thin layer of 

 Bradford Clay with its characteristic fossils, to which succeeds 

 the "Forest Marble," both these latter being a part of the 

 " Great Oolite " series. At Kemble a small patch of " Cornbrash " 

 is brought in by a fault, of which formation a larger tract is 

 passed over just before reaching Oaksey. Oaksey itself stands 

 upon the " Oxford Clay" which the line follows till a mile beyond 

 Purton, when the " Coral Eag " succeeds, upon an eminence of 



