6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



I have not thought it necessary to enter fully into the 

 details of the Meeting as Bath was visited by the Club on 

 the 14th September, 1865, when the British Association 

 met there ; also in July, 1866, June, 1873, and again in 

 August, 1881, all of which meetings are referred to in the 

 Annual Address of the time, by our late President, Sir W. 

 Guise, who contributed a paper in our Proceedings, 

 Vol. II, page 176, "Notes on the Inferior Oolite in the 

 Neighbourhood of Bath." 



I must, however, place on record how much we were 

 indebted to Mr Winwood for the valuable information he 

 gave us, and for his admirable arrangements of the day's 

 excursion. 



CLEEVE HILL, 26th AUGUST 



Carriages were taken from the Cheltenham Station to 

 the " Rising Sun," from whence the members walked to 

 the quarries, where a halt was made, and the Hon. Sec, 

 Mr Wethered, gave a lucid description of the three 

 divisions of the Lias in front of us, and referred to the 

 difference of opinion which existed as to the top bed 

 of the Upper Lias, or basement bed of the Inferior 

 Oolite ; and mentioned that in a paper on the subject 

 which he contributed to the Quarterly Journal of the 

 Geological Society he had given them the name of 

 " Transition beds." 



He then passed to the beds next in succession in the 

 series, and exhibited some beautiful photographic prints of 

 their Oolitic structure, as seen under the microscope, 

 shewing tubules growing round a nucleus, generally a 

 fragment of a calcareous organism — in some cases an 

 entire one, as a Foraminifera — but whether the tubules 

 were of animal or vegetable origin he was not prepared 

 to .sav. 



