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provided for them a splendid banquet, where flowers and fruits, 
intermingled with more solid dainties, invited the hungry 
wayfarers to partake. After dinner a few toasts helped to pass 
the time, after which the party broke up and dispersed. 
This was the last occasion upon which the Club met their old 
and valued associate, Mr. Cuartes Moorr, whose lamented 
death has already been chronicled in the earlier part of this 
address. 
The First Winter Meeting of the Club was held at the 
Lecture Theatre of the 
SCIENCE SCHOOL IN GLOUCESTER 
on Thursday, 19th of January in the present year, when a paper 
was read by Mr. E. Wrrcnent, F.G.S., on “The Pisolite and 
Basement Beds of the Inferior Oolite of Gloucestershire.” The 
<“ Pisolite,” or “Pea Grit,” is peculiar to the Cotteswolds. It 
consists of a deposit of flat or round grains, varying in size from 
the eighth to the third of an inch, the flat shape being the most 
prevalent. The bed is about 30 feet thick at Cleeve hill; it 
becomes thinner at Birdlip, and thins out south-west of Stroud. 
From a careful examination of the pisolites, Mr. WircHELL was 
of opinion that their concretionary structure was due to the 
ageregation of layers of muddy detritus round a fragmentary 
nucleus of portions of shell or coral. Mr. WircHELL traced the 
« Pigolite” beds from Cleeve to Selsley hill, and from Haresfield 
hill to Chalford, an area of 140 square miles. He said that the 
<< Pigolite” had been generally regarded by Cotteswold geologists 
as the basement of the Inferior Oolite, and as the introduction 
of the Oolitic structure. This he showed was not the case; 
- and he detailed numerous sections from Cleeve hill along the 
escarpment to Uley Bury, and others taken near Stroud, to 
show that while in the Cheltenham area the basement beds are 
thin and unimportant, they are gradually developed towards 
the south-west, and consist of beds of Oolitic limestone and 
freestone, some of which are of greater thickness than in any 
other Oolitic rocks of the Cotteswold series. Mr. WircHett 
