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described by the late Professor Buckman from the Lias shales 
from the neighbourhood of Cheltenham. A description of the 
Ammonite was given, and Mr Buckman stated that he had not 
found the species alluded to in the works of D’Orbigny, 
Quenstedt, Oppel, Tate and Blake, nor by the late Dr Wright, 
and he called attention to it for the purpose of obtaining 
more information respecting the species. 
On ‘the table was shown a remarkable mass of Fleastra 
foliacea, large enough to fill a wheelbarrow, which had been 
presented to the Museum by Mr J. W. Davis, of Gloucester, 
found 30 miles west of Lundy, in 42 fathoms of water. 
The Seconp Winter Meerine for the season was held in 
the Lecture Theatre of the Science School, in Gloucester, on 
Tuesday, December 14th, when a paper was read by S. 8. 
Buckman, F.G.S., on “The Sections of the Inferior Oolite 
between Andoversford and Bourton-on-the-Water.” 
The object of Mr Buckman’s paper was to introduce a series 
of Sections made along the newly constructed railway from 
Andoversford to Bourton-on-the-Water, chiefly in relation to 
the Inferior Oolite; to compare with Sections at Stroud Hill, 
Leckhampton, &c., in published works; to show the existence 
of a peculiar bed of yellow sand above the Upper Freestone, 
mistaken by the Geological Survey in one place for Supraliassic 
Sands, and so marked in the Ordnance Map; to show the 
existence of a bed of Freestone above the Gryphza Grit, and 
below the Upper Trigonia Grit, hitherto mistaken for the 
Upper Freestone; to show the existence of a peculiar Bored- 
bed on the top of this Freestone, traced for upwards of seven 
miles; to show the separate existence of Upper Freestones and 
another Bored-bed; to remark on the junction of the Inferior 
Oolite and the Fuller’s Harth, by aid of an enlarged copy of 
the Ordnance Survey Map, and a Section of the cutting to fully 
demonstrate the error of the Survey; and finally, to make a 
few remarks on the arrangement of zones in the Cotteswolds; 
and to show that Dr Wright did not figure the true Am. 
Jurensis, and that the Humphriesianus zone is probobly non- 
existent. 
