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with fossils; but the rock was so hard and cross-grained that the 
time at their disposal did not permit of forming a collection. 
The Club dined at the Fleece Hotel, Cirencester, after 
which Professor Harker gave an account of the chief points of 
interest that had occurred in the day’s ramble, and stated that 
a series of observations were being made on the beds, which 
might become subjects for future discussion. 
The Second Field Meeting was held at 
MITCHELDEAN, 
on Tuesday, the 19th of June. The Club assembled at the 
Micheldean-Road Station, where carriages awaited the arrival 
of the train from Gloucester at 11.27 a.m. The party at once 
drove off to inspect the beds known to geologists as the 
Drybrook Section, on which a paper read by Mr Weruzrep 
had given rise to some controversy. The “Quarterly Journal ” 
of the Geological Society contains a report of this paper, in 
which some of the leading geologists took exception to the 
views propounded by Mr Weruerep. It was, therefore, with 
the object of hearing these explained on the spot that the 
fixture for the day had been made. 
The beds under discussion are a series of arenaceous shales, 
in variously coloured bands of a grey, green and purple 
colour, lying between the conglomerate at the top of the “Old 
Red” series and the Lower Limestone Shales, at the base of 
the Carboniferous Limestone. Ascending the hill towards 
Drybrook, these sandy beds occur in that part of the road - 
known as the “Deep Cutting.” The first point to be noted 
was the “Old Red Conglomerate.” This is composed of 
rounded quartz pebbles, known as “ veined quartz,” which are 
cemented in a matrix of minute grains of silex and oxide of 
iron. Special attention was directed to this Conglomerate, 
because of the occurrence of similar pebbles of veined quartz 
in the Millstone Grit, which formation occurs some hundreds 
of feet above. This conglomerate indicates a complete dis- 
ruption of previously existing conditions, and may fairly be 
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