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Benthall Hall, in Shropsliire ; a week which will never be 

 forgotten by those who had the good fortune to be participators 

 in that delightful visit. 



You will be glad to hear that our excursions in those Shrop- 

 shire fields, so new to many of us, will not be whoUy without 

 result. I am able to inform the Club that our friend and 

 associate Mr. Charles Moore has been successful in detecting 

 in the Carboniferous Limestones and Shales of *' Steeraway " 

 and " The Hatch," a Fauna in many respects new and peculiar. 

 His labours are not yet completed, but as soon as possible it is 

 his intention to communicate to the Club a report on the sub- 

 ject. To this we may look forward as an important contribution 

 to our Transactions for the present season. 



THE ANl^UAL MEETING OF THE CLUB 



was held at the Spread Eagle Hotel, Gloucester, on Wednesday, 

 the 7th of April, when your President delivered the Anniversary 

 Address ; after which the usual election of officers for the 

 ensuing year took place, when you did me the honour to 

 testify your continued confidence in me by again placing me 

 in the distinguished position of President of the Cotteswold 

 Field Club. Dr. Wright and Mr. Lucy were chosen Vice- 

 Presidents, and Dr. Paiite was re-elected Secretary. A com- 

 munication was read from Professor Buckman on the Oolites 

 and Oolitic Sands of Dorsetshire, in which, after stating that 

 his observations confii-m the conclusions of Drs. Wright and 

 HoLii, that the Oolitic Freestones of Dorset are the equivalent 

 of the Inferior Oolite of Gloucestershire ; he adds that the 

 Parkinsoni and Humphresianus zones are both present, though 

 in Dorsetshire both of these Ammonites are frequently found 

 side by side, and occupying a wider range than the zones in 

 which they most frequently occur. 



The learned Professor gave it as his opinion that the "Sands" 

 at Bradford-Abbas, and about Sherborne and Yeovil, with 

 their alternate layers of imbedded and nodular Calcareous 

 Sandstones, are the representatives of the Freestone beds of 

 Cleeve Hill, and that the wall of Siliceous Freestone below 



