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Government Laboratories of Paris, taken from a recent work, 
entitled—“ Synthese des Mineraua et des Roches,” par F. Foque 
et Micnet Levy, &c. Paris, 1882. 
Dr Wriaeut, F.R.S., exhibited for inspection two beautiful 
specimens of fossil crustaceans from the Middle Lias of the 
Cotteswold. 
The First Field Meeting for the season was held at 
CIRENCESTER, 
on Tuesday, 22nd May, mainly with a view to examine a 
remarkable section of rock, which had become exposed at South 
Cerney by a deep cutting on the line of the Swindon and 
Cheltenham Extension Railway. The party first proceeded to 
the residence of Mr Bravenprr, to examine a collection of 
fossils, which had been recently obtained from the South 
Cerney Cutting. Dr Wriaeut, after a careful examination of 
the fossils, remarked that there could be no doubt that they 
were about to see that day a formation which had hitherto 
been almost unknown in Gloucestershire, as the fossils proved 
to be derived from the “Kelloway Rock,” so called by Wizt1am 
Smrrn, by whom it had been originally described as occurring 
at Kelloway Bridge, near Chippenham, in Wiltshire, which he . 
subsequently found in excavations of the Kennet and Avon 
Canal, near Trowbridge, the Wilts and Berks Canal, near 
Chippenham, and on the Thames and Severn Canal, near South 
Cerney ; so that the father of English geology had, fifty years 
ago, detected the presence of the very same formation which 
had been laid bare in the railway cutting, and which had 
remained so long unknown to local geologists. The following 
fossils, characteristic of the Kellovian stage were before them— 
Ammonites sublevis Sow., Ammonites Calloviensis Sow., Ammon- 
ites Gowerianus Sow., Ammonites Khenight Sow., Ammonites 
Herveyi Sow., Pholodomya obsoleta, Phol Terebratula ornithoce- 
phala Sow., Rhynchonella inconstans Sow., Gryphea dilatata 
Sow., &c. From hence the party proceeded to visit the church 
at Siddington, which contains much interesting Norman work. 
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