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views wtich, since 1865, lie has publicly demonstrated, and 

 which later investigations have found to be correct ? 



The following note by Mr. Mooee, at page 530, Quart. Journal, 

 December, 1867, sets the matter in a clear light, and in his 

 own words supplies a suggestive statement of facts, from which 

 unbiassed readers will draw their own conclusions : — 



" Immediately after the reading of Mr. Tattney's paper, I communicated 

 my views on the age of the Sutton and Southemdo-\vn Series to my Geological 

 friends in London, and I then informed Mr. Bristow that they were of 

 Liassic age. Ho has since surveyed them, and made sections for the 

 Geological Survey. In a short paper, read with my own and published in 

 the last number of the Society's Journal, I was pleased to find him in entire 

 accordance with myself respecting their age. At this time Mr. Tate had 

 an opportunity of inspecting the large coUectiou I forwarded with the 

 Sutton and Brocastle Corals to Dr. DuxcAy, bis views then being that 

 they belonged to the Ammonites planorhis series ; and I informed him they 

 belonged to still higher horizons. Since my paper was read, he has given 

 one on the ' Fossiliferous Development of the Ammonites angulatus Zone,' in 

 which there will be seen a repetition of many points in my paper, and a 

 general agreement with its views." 



I now take leave of this subject, believing that I have made 

 good my case, and vindicated the claim of our colleague to 

 priority over Messrs. Tawney, Duncan, Beistow, and Tate, in 

 his published views on the Liassic conditions of the Sutton and 

 Southerndown beds. 



With these preliminary remarks, I will proceed to give a 

 summary of the work done by the Club during the past season. 



The Annual Meeting was held at the Spread Eagle Hotel, 

 Gloucester, on Wednesday, 27th March, when the ordinary 

 routine business was transacted, the accounts wei-e audited and 

 passed, and the officers for the ensuing year were elected, when 

 you again did me the honoiu- to choose me for your President, 

 and we were fortunate in again securing the services of Dr. 

 Paine as Secretary. 



After dinner, the President read his Annual Address ; after 

 which a discussion arose, upon the reading of a letter from 

 Mr. Charles Moore, respecting the age of the Sutton and 

 Southerndown beds, when Dr. Wright took strong objection to 

 the term Infra-Lias, proposed to be applied to them by Dr, 



