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well developed at Marcigny-sous-TMl, and at Montigny-sur- 

 ArmanQon, which greatly resemble the beds of the same age 

 at Westbury, and contain a similar assemblage of Fossils, some 

 of which were especially noted^ but fuller details are contained 

 in his Memoirs. 



The Loiver Lias formation exhibited nearly all the stages with 

 which we are acquainted in Gloucestershire, in which the Doctor 

 enumerated the " Infra Lias," as in fact a great development of 

 the zone of Ammonites angulatus, containing in the Cote d'Or a 

 larger variety of Fossils than had been met with in any of the 

 localities in England hitherto explored. 



The Doctor traced the other stages one by one, and compared 

 them in passing with those of our own region, showing the 

 identity existing between the Faunas of both countries. 



The Upper Lias and its super-imposed " Sands " is well 

 developed in France, and the Sections exposed in the Cote 

 d'Or were compared with those at Frocester Hill, and other 

 typical localities. 



The Doctor glanced at the succession of beds through the 

 Inferior Oolite, and the stages known by Continental Geologists 

 as the BatJionien, Oicfordien, Corallien, Kimmeridgien, and Port- 

 landien ; the two latter of which he added, were not easily to 

 be correlated with ours. 



The result of the comparisons thus briefly summarised will 

 be found thoroughly exhibited in the learned paper which 

 forms no unimportant portion of our published Transactions for 

 the present year, after the perusal of which we shall be better 

 able to form a correct estimate of the value of our Colleague's 

 visit to M. Mabtin's collection. 



This was the last meeting of the Club for the season — a 

 season which will be long remembered as amongst the most 

 agreeable and instructive which the Club has ever known. Let 

 Tis hope that it will be the forerunner of many such, and be a 

 stimulus to every individual amongst us to maintain and extend 

 the ci-edit and influence of the Cotteswold Club. 



