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angular fragments of Llandovery and Aymestry strata, with 
their characteristic fossils. The residence of Madame Linp 
Gotpscumipt stands on this glacial “ Till.” 
After the conclusion of the paper Mr Lucy thanked cordially 
M. and Madame Gotpscumipt for their hearty reception, and 
a gracious reply was returned by Madame Gotpscumipr. After 
inspecting the large quarry of Gneiss, the party ascended the 
Herefordshire Beacon to the great British camp on the summit, 
from whence they proceeded to Little Malvern Church, where 
Mr Perez directed attention to all that is left of the ruins of a 
once flourishing Priory. Thus ended a most pleasant day. 
THE FIRST WINTER MEETING 
of the season was held in the Lecture Theatre of the 
SCIENCE SCHOOL IN GLOUCESTER, 
on Friday, January the 29th of the present year, when a 
paper was read by Mr Epwarp Wertuerep, F.G.S., on “The 
Structure and Organisms of the Carboniferous Limestone.” 
Mr WeruEereD commenced by defining the position of the 
Carboniferous Limestone as resting on the uppermost beds of 
the Old Red Sandstone. The strata which mark the transition 
from the one period to the other are admirably shown in the 
Forest of Dean and at St. Vincent’s Rock, at Clifton, the latter 
of which affords one of the finest expositions of Carboniferous 
Limestone in England. Altogether these beds show a thickness 
of something like 3000 feet, and he should show that this great 
accumulation of rocky substance had been built up directly or 
indirectly by marine organisms. A photograph of the lower 
bed of the Carboniferous Limestone at Clifton was then thrown 
upon a screen by means of the oxyhydrogen lime light, and 
the gradual passage from the sandy beds of the Old Red 
Sandstone to the Limestone was shown. A microscopic section 
of the rock was then displayed, and it was shown to be crowded 
with the remains of Hntomostraca, the largest of which only 
measured ‘01 of an inch in diameter. What were these minute 
organisms which, though so small, had been so important a 
