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no difiFerence of opinion. The lowest Coral bed, wliicli belongs 

 to the Pea-grit, at the base of the Inferior Oolite, is a white 

 efflorescent rock, full of Corals, Thamnastrea, &c., branched and 

 single in habit. It has always been difficult to find in situ, in 

 consequence of its argillaceous nature, causing it to slip and 

 slide over the Pea-grits, and thus to become one of the numerous 

 tumbled Oolite masses that so commonly occur on the flanks 

 of the Cotteswold range. This Coral bed was satisfactorily 

 recognised in the situation above indicated, at a Roadstone 

 quarry, and again by the turnpike-road leading to Stroud. 

 Crossing the Painswick valley, the same Coral bed was seen at 

 Juniper Hill, or Brown's Hill, where it occurs in a section 

 twenty feet thick, charged with characteristic Corals, a full 

 description of which will be found in Dr. Weight's paper. 

 Ascending the hill to Capel's quarry, overlooking the Slad or 

 Slade valley, the upper Coral bed is well shown, from two to 

 three feet thick, forming part of the Upper Trigonia Grit. 



The Club dined at the Imperial Hotel, Stroud. After 

 dinner, a good specimen of the Dartford Warbler (Melizophilus 

 provincialis) was exhibited by Mr. Jennek Fust, who procured 

 it in Kent. Some relics of a Roman villa, which had been 

 found on the site of a house in process of erection by Dr. 

 Wethered, at Stroud, were exhibited by the Hon. Secretary, 

 Dr. Paine. Dr. Weight then gave an interesting address on 

 the palseontological evidence presented by the Supra-Liassic 

 Sands of the Haresfield and other Cotteswold sections, urging, 

 with his accustomed eloquence, the claim of the Sands in 

 question to be ranged with the Upper Lias, — a claim founded 

 on palseontological evidence, which he proceeded to illustrate 

 by the exhibition of a fine suite of typical fossils; amongst 

 these. Ammonites opalinus, of Reinecke, was, he said, "riveted 

 to the Sands," in which he had been found it at Haresfield, 

 more than twenty years ago; the form which replaces it in 

 the Inferior Oolite, Amtnonites Murchisonce, being quite distinct. 

 Dr. Weight remarked that this form of Ammonite is not 

 confined to the Sands, ranging into the Lias; but so persistent 

 is this form, that it marks the zone of deposits between the 



