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and the first halt was in a cutting of the close to the old 
Tetbury Road Station, where there is an exposure (now a 
good deal covered up with grass) of the Bradford Clay, from 
which were obtained so many characteristic fossils, of that 
formation, by the late Dr S. P. Woodward, and his successor 
Mr Buckman, when they were Professors at the Royal Agricul- 
tural College, many of which are now in the College Museum. 
Some fine specimens of Terebratula digona and coarctata were 
found. Jarvis’s Quarry was next visited, where Professor 
Harker shewed how the beds of the Great Oolite were capped 
with a fissile limestone, which he regarded as a transitional 
deposit, and upon which rested the true Forest Marble. Thence 
the party proceeded to the Three Mile Quarry, at the bottom of 
which is a well-developed coral bed containing specimens of 
Isastrea Micheline in abundance. Through Earl Bathurst’s 
Park, passing through the Avenue of the Cathedral Firs, 
admiring the many splendid trees, the party reached Cirencester, 
where dinner was had at the King’s Head. Professor Etheridge 
made some interesting remarks on the beds visited during the 
excursion, which were supplemented by Professor Harker. 
Afterwards a visit was paid toa garden in the town, in a 
wall of which were some remarkable fine examples of the Dagham 
stone, beautifully perforated. Professor Harker stated he 
believed the perforations arose from humic acid acting upon 
the limestone; and the President remarked he had seen in the 
South of France, a few miles from Nismes, the same phenomena 
in beds of the Carboniferous limestone. 
The first Winter Meeting was held on the 20th November 
at the School of Science and Art at Gloucester, when the Rev. 
Dr Smithe gave a Paper “Notes made in 1888 on Périgueux in 
the Dordogne, France,” of which the following is a very brief 
account. The author went during the year to the ancient town 
of Périgueux in the Valley of the Dordogne—a part little visited 
by Englishmen—yet deservedly worthy of careful study of its 
various points of attraction, Commending itself to one interested 
