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similar to those in the same bed at Frocester Hill, but not so 
well preserved. The total thickness of the Inferior Oolite is 
about 130 feet. The sections are chiefly on the north-east 
angle of the hill, where there are quarries that open up more 
or less completely the whole of the beds. The lower quarries 
are in the Lower Limestone, and near the base Mr Witchell 
recently observed some very interesting examples of stratifi- 
cation, one of the beds being composed of thin layers of dark 
brown sandy grit, interstratified with White Oolite, but the 
layers were so thin that he counted thirty in a thickness of 
three inches. In one of the quarries, on nearly the same level, 
he discovered a pebble-bed—the pebbles were Oolitic, and 
imbedded in a dark brown sandy grit; the bed is three feet 
thick. Rock specimens of this bed, and of a similar bed in 
the Lower Limestone of Randwick Hill, were exhibited. The 
bed of Pea-grit was next described, and its approaching termi- 
nation in the direction of Frocester Hill explained. Quoting 
from Dr Lycett’s “ Cotteswold Hills,” Mr Witchell pointed out 
that the Pea-grit had been treated as a band of Marl, and the 
Lower Limestone considered as part of the Freestone, which 
' had led to confusion. The thinning out of the Oolite Marl 
was next shown, the bed being only four inches thick at 
the south-west end of the hill. The Flagstone and Clypeus beds 
were described, and sections given. The Fuller’s Earth was 
not seen on the top of the hill, but the adjacent hill, known as 
Bown Hill, was Fuller’s Earth, capped by Great Oolite. Mr 
Witchell said that he had no doubt of the former extension 
of the Fuller’s Earth and Great Oolite over Selsley Hill, but 
denuding forces had swept it away, so that not a trace remained. 
The thinning out of the Inferior Oolite was shown by 
comparison with the corresponding beds at Leckhampton Hill, 
the diminished amount of deposition in the Selsley area Mr 
Witchell attributed to the circumstance that the underlying 
sands at Frocester Hill are at a higher level than in the vicinity 
of Stroud. 
A paper by Mr S. S. Buckman, F.G.S., was read, in his 
absence on Ammonites accipitris, Buck., a small Ammonite 
