The Minerals of Gloucestershire : Observations on Celestite, read at 
Gloucester, January 25th, 1890, by Frepx. Smuirue. 
In the Proceedings of the Cotteswold Naturalists Field 
Club for 1881—1882, at page 30, will be found a Paper written 
by the President, entitled, ‘On the Minerals of Gloucestershire, 
_ “with part of the adjacent counties of Somersetshire and Wor- 
“ cestershire, compiled by Mr W.C. Lucy; also a list of Derived 
“ Rocks found in the Northern Drift Gravel over the same area, 
“by Mr W. C. Lucy.” This Paper includes a list of Minerals 
from the neighbourhood of Bristol, by EK. Wethered, F.G.S., &c., 
of Cheltenham, in which is included the mineral Celestite, and 
its allied species, Baryto-celestite. This paper was followed, in 
the next number of the Proceedings (1883—1884) by a com- 
munication, at page 112, with the title, “On the occurrence of 
“the mineral Vivianite in the Cotteswolds, with remarks by 
“Fredk. Smithe, &c.”’ So far it seems thus clear that Mr 
WETHERED is quite correct in citing the mineral Celestite as 
being in the neighbourhood of Bristol; but it is on the Somer- 
setshire side of the Avon, and for this reason the author of this 
paper scrupled to include it in a list compiled by him of the 
Minerals of Gloucestershire, although he has had a specimen in 
his possession of the Celestite, from Pyle Hill, for over 30 
years. This specimen came out of the Red Marls of Pyle Hill, 
just where the Avon separates it from the county of Gloucester; 
in other words, the mineral occurs on the Somersetshire side of 
the river at Bedminster, and at Pyle Hill. It is a pleasure now, 
not only to record Celestite in the list of Gloucestershire 
minerals, but also to claim its ally, Baryto-celestite, found lately 
at Clifton, and onward to the North of Bristol through the 
Midlands, as undoubtedly occurring in no small quantity in 
some places, which we will mention. 
