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was found in plotting the above sections to scale, that a line 
drawn through the points in the several bore-holes Nos. 1, 2, 
and 4, at which the waters assume a permanent level, was a 
continuous straight line, with a flatter gradient than that of 
the strata passed through, from which it was assumed that the 
water had a common source. 
Mr Lucy acknowledged how much he had been assisted by 
Mr Reap, the City Surveyor, in the information he had given 
to the Meeting. 
The Second Winter Meeting for the season was held in the 
Lecture Theatre of the 
SCIENCE SCHOOL AT GLOUCESTER, 
On Tuesday, 5th of February, when two papers were read,— 
the first by E. Wrerueren, F.G.S8.; the second by E. Wircnet1, 
F.G.S. The subject of Mr Weruerep’s Paper was “On the 
occurrence of the Spores of Plants in the Lower Limestone 
Shales of the Forest of Dean, and in the Black Shales of Ohio, 
in the United States of America.” 
Mr WerHerep commenced by making reference to a paper 
which he had brought under the notice of the Club “ On the 
Lower Carboniferous Rocks of the Forest of Dean.” In it he 
had described an argillaceous bed, to which he had given the 
name of the Rhychonella plewrodon bed, because of the abundance 
of that fossil found init. At the top of this is a bituminous 
layer, a few inches thick, in which he detected a number of 
minute yellow discs. On visiting Drybrook last summer he 
came across some black shales below the Rhychonella pleurodon 
bed, and in these he detected the same yellow bodies before 
noticed. A microscopic section of the shale was procured by 
first hardening the material in Canada balsam, which revealed 
the fact that the shale was full of vegetable remains. 
About this time, Dr Dawson, of Montreal was visiting 
Cheltenham, and showed to Mr Weruerep some spores of 
plants found in the Black Shales, of Ohio, United States; 
these Mr Weruerep recognised as similar to those found in 
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