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steep angle. From the Oolite Marl Mr Bucxman has obtained 
several new species of Brachiopods. Specimens were exhibited 
of Terebratula, Waldheimia, and Rhynchonella, which it was 
understood would be figured and described in the Transactions 
of the Club. 
THE THIRD WINTER MEETING 
was held at 
GLOUCESTER, 
on Tuesday, 9th March, when a paper was read by Mr W. C. 
Lucy, F.G.S8., on the ‘ Position of the Rocks of the north-west 
Highlands of Scotland, illustrated by rock-specimens from 
Sutherland and Ross-shire.” Mr Lucy stated that though the 
subject of his paper was far removed from the Cotteswold area 
it was not new to the members of the Club, as it formed the 
basis of an important communication from Mr R. Ernermen, 
F.R.S., some years since, and that he (Mr Lucy) had referred 
to it ina paper on Ross-shire in February, 1883. He gave a 
brief history of the views held by various writers on the north- 
west Highlands, including Prennant, Maccuniocu, Sepewicx, 
' Huex Miner, Prof. Nicot, Sir Ropericxk Murcuison, and 
others. Sir Roperick read his great paper “On the Succession 
of the Rocks in the Northern Highlands” to the Geological 
Society in 1858, and the conclusions at which he arrived as 
regards the sequence of the beds were accepted, and laid down 
in the geological map in accordance with these views. Prof. 
Nicot had however from the first contested the views of 
Morcuison, but the authority of the latter overbore all hostile 
criticism, and to doubt the Murcuison1an theory was regarded 
as little less than rank blasphemy. In 1878 Dr Hicks called 
in question the views of the “Survey,” and again in 1880; and 
he was followed by Dr Catnaway and Professor Larworrn. 
The latter demonstrated, by a series of sections, that the 
Morcuison1an hypothesis in the regions regarded by its 
upholders as typical was wrong. Last year a letter from 
