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us, we have the alternative of believing that the isolated spots 

 mentioned by my friend Mr. Jeffreys are so many centres of 

 creation of one insignificant species. 



" If there shoiild be any doubt at all about the existence of 

 Helix lamellata as one of the Hving mollusks of Gloucestershire, 

 it would be well if the Cotteswold Club would give its mind to 

 it. Mr. Witchell's collection will prove in the most satisfactory 

 manner that it once existed at Stroud Bill. I sent specimens 

 to the President, and have his receipt in full for them, and there 

 cannot be a more unmistakable species." 



The Eev. F. Smithe, at the request of the Chairman, gave a 

 short account of the proceedings of the Geological section during 

 the day. He said that the cutting on the Stonehouse and 

 IsTailsworth Railway had proved to be interesting, not only on 

 account of its fossil contents, but from the fact that the 

 excavation affords an opportunity of examining a zone of the 

 Middle Lias in a series of beds which are never worked for theii- 

 intrinsic value, for the workings into the Marlstone for the sake 

 of road-metal always stop short of the peculiar underlying beds 

 which had been on that day visited. Wallets might soon have 

 been filled with the characteristic fossils of the section. The 

 zones included, comprise those from the Spinatus to the Jamesoni, 

 and well deserve close working. They constitute the "Micaceous 

 Sandstone" of Murchison. A few of the leading fossils met 

 with were as follows: — Ammonites maculosus, common; Belemnites 

 brevis; Myacites, sp., abundant; a large Pinna, not unfrequent; 

 Monotis incequivalvis ; Area, not unHke A. Bitckm,anni ; Rhyn- 

 chonella concinna; large Pecten; Modiola scalprum; Pholodom,ya, 

 ambigua; and Crinoidal remains. Mr. Smithe thought it would 

 be very desirable to look for the Leptcena bed, which he had 

 found on Churchdown Hill, in a similar Geological position. 

 Mr. Witchell stated that he had found the Leptcena-bed in 

 some cellar excavations near the railway station at Stroud, 

 where it was of about the same thickness as at Churchdown — 

 from one to two inches — and he had no doubt that it would be 

 found at the Light Pill cutting. Mr. Witchell then called 

 attention to the gravel-beds at Stonehouse, and at the Gas 



