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permission to inspect them, but the elaborate facilities for 
numbering, placing in boxes, and subsequently storing them, 
which has been generously carried out by the Chairman of the 
Water Works Company, EH. W. Cripps, Esq. The thanks of all 
Cotteswold Geologists are due to Mr Cripps for placing these 
cores at my disposal, for without such assistance this investiga- 
tion could not have been completed. 
There is still much work to be done, microscopic and 
chemical, on the abundant material furnished by these cores, 
but the following section, the result of examinations carried 
out in conjunction with some of my students, may, I believe, 
be taken as generally correct. A comparison of it, with Mr 
Taunton’s chisel-boring section shows almost complete identity 
in broad outline. 
SEcTION THROUGH THE FLOoR OF THE CIRENCESTER VALLEY, 
FROM THE SHAFT aND Diamonp Borine at Lewis LAne. 
ft. in 
a Made ground ... ee ae ae = ie 5c 
= ro Gravel ce, aes ay sisey, Mevas 2 _ asec ing avian’ (@u SoeumREeaa 
= 8 Fine sand Eo Fe3 Abe wes tee a ape OL) 
5 & | Dark brown clay oo oa en so ae 0 Le 
) Blue clay ALD ae see a oe be ase, 22 
In this were found the fossils pended at page pre- 
ceding. A typical specimen has been presented by Mr 
Taunton to the Gloucester Museum. 
1.—Hard blue limestone 1 2 
2.—Alternating bands of one: Ae ee full of Rh sohokes ia 30 
3.—Crumbling clay, full of shells(Terebratule, Homomya,Pecten,) 3 0 
4.—Hard limestone, with clay pockets ; many fossils +o oe 2 
5.—Very hard blue limestone, with Brachiopoda shells, fant 
hollow or infiltrated with carbonate of lime, resembling 
Kellaway’s Rock at South Cerney . 4 0 
6.—Clay, crowded with imperfect bivaive yard C Milodiola) 6 6 
7.—Hard shelly limestone, with much wood—a fish scale a OME 
8.—Compact light clay... si Ke an 32 
9.—Bluish-black speckled rock ais 0 8 
10.—Clay, with Ostrea, Polyzoa, tracks and ious 6 6 
This bears a close resemblance to the Upper ee 
Marble Clays at the Gas Works. If it should be the 
equivalent bed the Cornbrash above is not well re- 
presented. 
