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Outside the work of the Club, our members have not 
been idle. I have contributed to the Quarterly Journal 
of the Geological Society, a paper on “The Plutonic 
Complex of Central Anglesey,” and to the Geological 
Magazine, an article “On a Cause of River Curves.” 
Papers have appeared in the Geological Magazine by Mr 
Buckman, on “River Development,” and “The term 
“Hemera.’” He has also published a paper entitled 
“Emendations of Ammonite Nomenclature.” Mr 
Richardson has contributed to the Geological Magazine, 
“The Inferior Oolite, Bredon Hill,’ and “Sections of 
Rhetic Rocks in Worcestershire.” He has also a paper 
“On the Estheria-bed in North-west Gloucestershire,” in 
The Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalsts Society.” 
There have appeared in the Officzal Guide to the Stroud 
Valley, a paper on the “ Geology of Mid-Gloucestershire,” 
by Mr C. Upton, and a description of “Slad Valley, 
Birdlip, and Painswick,” by Mr W. Thompson. 
The Council of the Geological Society of London have 
recently done honour to the Club by awarding the 
Murchison Medal to your President, and a moiety of the 
balance of the proceeds of the Lyell Fund to our Hon. 
Secretary (S. S. Buckman, F.G.S.) 
PART II.—THE SO-CALLED ANCIENT STRAITS OF 
MALVERN. 
To members of the Cotteswold Field Club there are 
few scientific questions of greater interest than the recent 
history of the expansive valley in which their Annual 
Meetings are held. From Gloucester, we look out on the 
west to a hilly region of Paleozoic and Archzan Rocks ; 
while on the east rises the Jurassic plateau which has 
given its name to our Club. Between these western and 
eastern rims lies a fertile vale, excavated in times geologi- 
cally modern. It was carved out by slow continuous 
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