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the party, inasmuch as it afforded them an opportunity of 
comparing the Inferior Oolite on the north side of the Great 
Oolite plateau with those more familiar beds of the Cotteswolds 
to the south of the same region. 
The party assembled at the White Hart, Chipping Norton, 
where carriages were in waiting. Their attention was first 
directed to the cutting on the Cheltenham and Banbury 
Railway at Hook Norton. Here they were joined by Mr E. A. 
Watrorp, the author of a paper in the Quarterly Journal of 
the Geological Society on “'The Relation of the so-called North- 
ampton Sand” of north Oxon to the ‘‘Clypeus-grit.” Some 
opposition was manifested by the contractor to the inspection of 
the cutting, but on the President and Vice-President giving 
their names, the party was permitted to proceed without further 
molestation. Those who would master the details of these 
remarkable sandy beds, so different from any of the Cotteswold 
type, should study the paper by Mr Watrorp in the number 
for May, 1883, of the Quarterly Journal. At the point examined 
the cutting presented a section of about thirty-six feet of 
Inferior Oolite, resting upon Upper Lias Shales. Of these 
Oolites the lower six feet consist of rock, in which has been 
found Rhynchonella cynocephala, which in the Cotteswold charac- 
terises the lowest bed of the series. The upper sandy beds 
have yielded Ammonites Parkinsoni, which is characteristic of 
the upper beds of the Inferior Oolite. It would thus seem that 
the middle series is absent, and that only the highest and 
lowest beds are represented in the section. These arenaceous 
beds are so entirely dissimilar to any in the Cotteswolds that it 
is evident that totally different conditions prevailed in the 
relations of land and water at the period of their respective 
deposition. 
The party having despatched a very welcome luncheon, 
gipsy fashion, under a sheltering hedge, proceeded to the 
Church at Hook Norton, which has been much altered at 
various periods. Besides the remains of Norman work it 
contains a remarkable round font, on which are figures of 
Adam and Eve and other rude sculptures. 
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