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are. In a quarry at Siddington, said to be the largest 

 Forest Marble quarry in England, the central beds are 

 exposed and among them is a bed locally known as tile- 

 stone, closely resembling the Stonesfield slate, and like it 

 largely used for roofing purposes. The Poulton beds are 

 higher still, and teem with fossils, indeed from one of 

 these quarries Mr Phillips obtained much of the splendid 

 collection of Saurians now in the Oxford Museum. The 

 topmost beds are exposed in a quarry at Ampney, and over- 

 lying them is the Cornl)rash, the thin bed of rubbly freestone 

 pointed out many years ago by the late Professor Ruckman 

 as specially rich for corn growing. A discussion ensued 

 as to the conditions under which the Forest Marble was 

 deposited. Professor Harker showing that there is ample 

 palseontological evidence, in the comminuted state of the 

 fossil remains that the beds are a series of shore deposits. 

 Mr Wethered said that around some fossil fragments 

 microscopic tubuli have formed, and Mr Buckman pointed 

 out that 75 per cent, of the fossil remains in the Forest 

 Marble are also found in the underlying Great Oolite, 

 indicating an unbroken sequence in the deposition of both 

 formations. 



Of the stained glass in Fairford Church I need say 

 little, its glories and its teachings have been so ably 

 chronicled in capital hand-books, and in papers in 

 Archaeological maga;cines, wherein is also recorded all that 

 there is to be said for and against the theory that the 

 windows are the work of Albert Diirer. The Vicar (the 

 Rev. F. R. Carbonell) not only proved a competent and 

 enthusiastic guide, but is also a painstaking and energetic 

 custodian of his treasures ; and had some of his prede- 

 cessors been equally careful, the windows would have 

 had far less of new glass than they now contain. 



On the 26th July the Club paid a visit to the celebrated 

 Glee Hill quarries, near Ludlow. The Mayor of Ludlow 

 (Mr T. Roberts) met the members at the station, and 



