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The President opened the meeting by addressing a few 
words to those present on the great loss just sustained by the 
Society in the death of their old friend and Vice-President, 
Dr Weieut, a loss which he described as irreparable. 
The paper by Mr Lucy on “ The Sutton and Southerndown 
Beds,” was the result of a week’s study of the ground, in 
company with Mr Tomes. These beds have formed a erua for 
Geologists, and have been treated by Messrs Tawney, ErHEripes, 
Moors, Bristow and others, and it would seem that the last 
word has not yet been said upon them. The main object of 
Mr Lucy’s paper was to show that the beds at Sutton belong 
to the “ White Lias,”’ and that some conglomeratic beds which 
occur east of “ the caves,” and belonging to the Lias, had been 
mistaken for the “Sutton Stone,” to which the beds in question 
bear a great resemblance; and Mr Lucy is of opinion that 
many of the supposed “ Sutton-Stone” fossils have been derived 
from these liassic beds. An extract was given from a recent 
paper by Mr Tomes, in the Quarterly Journal of the Geological 
Society, which shows that the corals collected at Sutton are of 
St. Cassian species, none of which occur at Brocastle. 
This paper was illustrated by several inland and coast 
sections. 
Mr Lucy exhibited a well preserved tooth of Mammoth 
(Elephas primigenius) from the gravels of Cainscross, near 
Stroud. 
Mr Wircenett then read his paper on the “ Forest Marble 
and Great Oolite between Nailsworth- and Wotton-under- 
Edge.” The paper was the result of work done in the previous 
month of October, when the author went over the ground, in 
company with Mr C. Puayne and Mr Aurrep Smirx. He 
found the Geology exceptionally interesting, inasmuch as it 
enabled him to trace the thinning out of the beds of white 
limestone, (Great Oolite) and of the shelly beds of Minchin- 
hampton, belonging to the same formation. The limestone 
ceases near Kingscote, and in the same locality the shelly beds 
lose their shelly character, and become weatherstone beds, 
formed of shelly detritus ground down into fine particles of 
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