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The First Winter Meetine of the Club for the present 
season was held in the Lecture Theatre of the School of 
Science at Gloucester, on Tuesday, 14th December. The 
President made some feeling and appropriate remarks in 
reference to the death of the late Mr T. B. Lloyd Baker, who 
assisted in establishing the Club, exactly 40 years ago, and was 
its first President. He bore testimony to the worth of Mr 
Baker, and to the loss the county had sustained by his death. . 
The first paper read was by Mr E. Witchell, F.G.S., on a 
Section of Selsley Hill. It was well known to Geologists that 
the Inferior Oolite attained its greatest development in the 
Cheltenham area, and gradually became thinner as it was 
traced in a south-westerly direction along the Cotteswold 
escarpment. Sections of the formation had been given in the 
proceedings of the Club, but they were chiefly confined to the 
Cheltenham area. Mr Witchell referred to the late Dr Wright’s 
’ Section of Cleeve Hill, to the Leckhampton Section adopted by 
him, and to a Section of Birdlip Hill, by Mr W. C. Lucy. 
These, he thought, required to be supplemented by a Section of 
one of the hills in the middle division of the Cotteswolds, so 
that the beds might be correlated with those of Leckhampton. 
He considered Selsley Hill to be the most suitable, as it had 
suffered less from denudation than the adjacent hills, and was 
capped by the same beds as those on Leckhampton Hill. He 
then proceeded to describe the several strata of which the hill 
is composed. The base is Middle Lias, of which there are 
exposures in the railway cuttings of the Nailsworth valley and 
a good section at Dudbridge. The Upper Lias exposures are 
all on the opposite side of the stream, so that it is difficult to 
ascertain the thickness of the beds; but as the bed of the 
Frome at Dudbridge is about 110 feet above the sea level, and 
the highest spring at Selsley is 420 feet, the difference, 310 
feet, represents the thickness of the Liassic beds above the 
Frome. The Sands are about 130 feet, but are not exposed on 
the hill, but there is a small section in the adjacent Penwood, 
at the height of 560 feet, in which the Cephalopoda bed is 
exposed. It is about four feet thick, and contains fossils 
