2, “ Sunbed” 130 ri as i: DS S10) 
Slight Arenaceous parting. 
3. Broken-up beds of Lower Lias, brown on exterior .... 15 10 
4. Two beds of hard rock, with Myacites, 
Terebratula, Ostrea and Belemnites— ES 
crystalline at base, gritty on top fm zat 2b 7 
with rolled phosphatic nodules and Lo. J 
quartz pebbles 
5. Yellow clay ... 13 
6. Blue clay 2 3 
7. Two bands of rock with clay ae ae wh i eee 
8. Brown irony sand L 2 
9. Rock rm 0 10 
10. Arenaceous clay ry soars eee 
11. Gritty rock with rolled sat apes dais crabs OPanee 
12. Debris, with Belemnites aculus, Lima and Terebratula 
Walcotti ... a Me Hf rs ees 
These necessarily dry details need, perhaps, some apology. It 
is given generally to but few members of a mixed Field Club to 
feel the same intense interest in the Rocks forming the hills 
and valleys over which they walk, as their brothers of the 
hammer do. But each intelligent mind has its own peculiar 
hobby. One delights in hunting up the dusty records of the past 
for the scattered scraps of information they contain of places and 
persons ; another rejoices in the addition of some new plant to his 
herbarium, a new shell to his collection, a rare form of fungus to 
his list ; another likes to recall to his imagination the peoples who 
have left théir trace behind in chambered tumuli, Roman villa, or 
fretted roof and decorated pier; some such pursuit adds a 
zest to daily life. As one then of those who take an interest in 
the mighty forces, the long-continued but gentle influences, which 
have formed the rocks and sculptured the physical features of 
hill and dale around us, I unhesitatingly assert that the pursuit 
of geology will yield unbounded gratification to every one who 
