130 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB . 1903 
adopted." The Geological Survey Memoir by Prof. 
Hull, explanatory of Sheet 44, gave Strickland’s revised 
section.” 
In “ The Geologist” for September, 1858, Brodie gave 
a general account of the Rheztic beds in Gloucestershire ;3 
and this section is described in some detail. Brodie 
remarked that the As¢hevza-bed has “a singular waved 
and variegated character, so that it has obtained the name 
of Landscape-stone near Bristol.”4 Twelve feet of yellow 
clay and black shale are then stated to separate the Estherza- 
bed from the celebrated Bone-bed, “ of which there are two 
layers at Wainlode Cliff, the upper one being a hard sand- | 
stone, the surface of which is covered with various 
markings and tracks of molluscs and marine worms, and 
the other, about ten feet lower, of a dark colour, full of 
pyrites, and almost composed of the bones, teeth, and 
scales of fish and saurians ; at Coomb Hill, Westbury and 
Aust, it is much thicker, and contains some singular 
palatal teeth of Ceratodus. Two feet of black shale 
separate this from the green and red marls of the Trias or 
New Red system.” The “bone-bed ” referred to by Brodie 
as occurring 12 feet below the Lstherza-bed is bed 5b 
in my section (Table I), which is sometimes ossiferous ; 
but the maximum thickness of the intervening deposit is 
nine feet. The other “bone-bed” stated to be about ten 
feet below the former, is the stratum to which I would 
suggest that the term Bone-bed be restricted ; and it was 
chiefly on the surface of the sandstone-equivalent of this 
bed that Strickland noted the markings recorded in his 
paper. 
In 1860 the section was examined by Dr T. Wright.5 In 
1862 Prof. T. Rupert Jones reproduced Brodie’s section 
of 1845, and remarked upon and figured the Zstheria.® 
1 “A History of the Fossil Insects in the Secondary Rocks of Britain ” (1845), p. 58; 
also Proc. Cotteswold Club, Vol. i., Appendix (1851), p. 4. 
2 “ Geology of the Country around Cheltenham ” (1857), p. 13. 
3 Vol. L, pp. 374-377: 4 But see p. 139 
5 Quart. "Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. xvi. (1860), p. 379. 
6 “Monogr. Foss. Estherize,” Pal. Soc. (1862), pp. 67, 68, Plate ii., Figs. 12 to 15. 
