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they liave been quarried, from a very remote perioJ, as is shewn 

 by the mounds of turf-covered debris with which the surface 

 of the ground is everywhere disturbed. These beds are marked 

 by an utter absence of distinctive fossils, and present a feature 

 which has no apparent representative elsewhere in the 

 Cotteswolds. They would seem to be the equivalent of the 

 * Clypeus Grits ' of Leckhampton hill, but the absence of fossils 

 makes it diiBcult to correlate them exactly. These uppermost 

 beds are about 17 feet in thickness. 



The Church tower is of singular beauty, and is happily beyond 

 the reach of the restorer, who has polished and modernized 

 the interior. It was ascended by several of the party, who 

 enjoyed greatly the magnificent prospect from the summit, 

 together with a deliciously cool breeze, which at that elevation 

 tempered the flaming ardours of the afternoon sun. 



The party dined together at the Royal Hotel Bristol, in 

 company with their guests, W. W. Stoddart, Esq., F.G.S., and 

 Dr. BuKDEK, Vice-Presidents of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, 

 and A. Leipner, Esq., the Hon. Secretary. 



After dinner Mr. G. F. Platne made some remarks upon 

 certain subsidences of the ground known as " Whorley Pitts," 

 in the parish of Avening. These pits he described as varying 

 in size from a few inches in width and depth, to several feet, 

 insomuch as to become in some cases a soTirce of danger. These 

 subsidences he found were caused by water washing out the 

 softer strata below ; but it did not seem to be shewn why these 

 sinkings should assume always a more or less circular form. 

 It appeared from the discussion which followed, that Kke 

 subsidences are known to occur in the Carboniferous Limestone, 

 and one such was mentioned as existing on Clifton Down. 



I am indebted to Mr. Stoddaet for the following list of 

 fossils from the Dundry Oohte. It is by far the most complete 

 catalogue which has yet been published, and may well supply a 

 model on which some amongst us may prepare, what has 

 been long needed — a tabulated list of all the fossil shells 

 found in the Gloucestershire Oolites. In the first volume of 

 our Transactions, at page 62, will be found a " Tabular view of 



