84. 
A. jurensis, two species of Belemnites, Rhynchonella cynocephala, 
and examples of Gresslya, Gervillia, Myacites, &c. In passing 
from Wotton-under-Edge to Symond’s Hall hill the whole series 
of beds are passed over, from the Lower Lias of the vale of 
the Severn to the Great Oolite, which forms the summit of 
Symond’s Hall hill, and the plateau of the Cotteswolds in that 
direction. A section of this area is given by Dr Wright in his 
“Lias Ammonites,” Part II, in the volume of the Palzonto- 
graphical Society, for the year 1879. 
A pleasant drive, commanding in many points splendid 
prospects over the vale of the Severn, brought the Club to 
Dursley, where, at the Old Bell, they found dinner awaiting 
them. 
The Tuirp Firtp Meertine of the Club for the present 
season was held at Crrencester, on Tuesday, 20th July. On 
arriving at the Station they found carriages awaiting them, 
and, under the guidance of Professor Harker, they proceeded 
to examine a section on the unfinished portion of the Swindon 
and Marlborough Railway, which is displayed in a cutting of 
about a quarter of a mile in length through the Forest Marble. 
The special interest attaching to this cutting is that it exposes 
the typical marble beds which give the name to this subdivision 
of the Oolite. There is a stratum of from six to seven feet of 
very hard shelly Limestone or Marble, composed almost entirely 
of shells of Ostrea Sowerbvi and other oysters, with Pectens and 
Limas, and occasional bits of wood, varying in size from minute 
splinters to pieces as much as a foot in length and some inches 
in thickness. 
Professor Harker brought a small box of fossils, collected 
by himself and his students of the Royal Agricultural College 
from the cutting, and showed some slabs of the polished marble 
itself, which, were it not for its irregularity and for the 
occasional occurrence of small pockets of sand, might serve 
for economic purposes, as it takes a high polish, and is of con- 
siderable beauty. The members of the Club spent an hour 
here in collecting fossils from the broken material with which 
the railway line is ballasted. There is no such exposure of the 
