208 PROCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD CLUB 



familiar with the admirable section made by their old and 

 valued member, Mr. Etheridi2;e, to be found in the Pro- 

 ceedings, vol. IV., 1866. In the 150 odd feet of sandstone, 

 marls, and limestones they had one of the finest succes- 

 sions of beds from the Triassic Marls, resting upon the 

 upturned edges of the Mountain Limestone, to the Rhcetic 

 Beds and White Lias above, that exists anywhere, rendered 

 classical 'by the many eminent geologists who had de- 

 scribed them. Notwithstanding this there was still some- 

 thing left for Cotteswold geologists to do, namely, to 

 accurately measure and describe some 13 feet of the top 

 beds which Ethe ridge had omitted from his section : they 

 were very difficult of access. The shortness of the time, 

 as usual, only allowed a hasty traverse along the shore ; 

 but many fossils were collected, e.g. fish scales and 

 teeth, saurian vertebrae and bones, Pec ten valoniensis, 

 slabs covered with Pullastra arenicola, blocks of Gotham 

 marble and the iron-pyritised bone-bed, the result of 

 falls from the cliff above. But no teeth of Ceratodi 

 were obtained — local collectors probably having carefully 

 watched the opportunity of securing these notable teeth 

 after violent gales had brought them down from the 

 cliff 



After entraining at Thornbury, the entire succession of 

 the Carboniferous Limestone beds was passed through, 

 from the Lower Limestone shales, through the Low^er and 

 Middle, to the Upper Limestones, so well exposed in the 

 Tytherington quarry, of which a section is given in the 

 Proceedings, Vol. IX, p. 325. 



During the winter three afternoon meetings were held, 

 when papers w^ere read, which will be found jninted in 

 the forthcoming portion of the Proceedings. 



