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After lunch at the Red Lion, Westbury, and the election 
of Dr Davis, of Cheltenham, and Mr F. W. Waller, of 
Gloucester, as members, a short walk brought the party to the 
classic section of Garden Cliff, where the President said—I am 
old enough to remember when the lower part of the section 
before us was regarded as belonging to the New Red, and 
above, where the beds are of a different colour, to the Lower 
Lias. Sir Philip Egerton was the first to suggest—grounded 
on a careful examination of the Fish remains at Aust, which he 
found were more of a Triassic than Liassic type—that they 
probably belonged to the former, or occupied an intermediate 
position between the two formations. Our old Vice-President, 
Dr Wright, in a paper printed in the Geological Society’s 
Journal in 1860, placed the upper part in the zone of the 
Avicula contorta, from the presence of that very characteristic 
shell, considering them the equivalent of the Upper St. Cassian 
beds of the Alps. Mr Charles Moore, also a member of our 
Club, in 1861 read a very able paper before the Geological 
Society, in which he showed most conclusively that this 
important series is the representative in this country of the 
Upper St. Cassian and Kossen beds of Escher, and he called 
them Rhetic, from their occurring in the Rhetian Alps. 
Subsequently the Geological Survey, through Mr Bristow and Mr 
Etheridge, examined the beds in this area, and as they found 
them very fully developed at Penarth Head, opposite to 
Cardiff, they gave them the name of “ Penarth,” a term 
which has since then been adopted in the Survey Maps. 
The first detailed notice of Westbury in our Proceedings 
will be found in Vol. II. p. 88, in the President’s Address for 
1860. He says—“ The Cliff has lately been carefully examined 
by our Secretary and Mr Lucy, who have noted a section 
differing from those already published, and by permission I will 
proceed to incorporate it in this resumé of our Proceedings.” 
In 1865 Professor Etheridge wrote a most exhaustive paper 
upon these beds for our Proceedings, entitled, ‘“‘On the Rhetic 
or Avicula Contorta Beds at Garden Cliff.” The upper part of 
Mr Etheridge’s section was practically the same as the one by 
