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were studied by Brodie,* and later by Edwin Witchell,’ 
who gave them their present appellation. 
Witchell also investigated the other beds of the Lower 
Stage—those from the Sczssam-Beds to Upper Freestone 
inclusive. Dr J. Lycett,? Wright,‘ and Witchell> paid con- 
siderable attention to the “Intervening-Beds” at Rod- 
borough Hill; but all three failed to correlate them with 
their correct equivalents nearer Cheltenham. Mr Buckman 
corrected these authors as far as Rodborough Hill was con- 
cerned; but although he was right in his apportioning of 
the “Intervening-Beds” there, he was unable to say for 
certain that the deposit he had assumed was the Luckmant- 
Grit was really that zone, because he had never found the 
characteristic brachiopod zz sz¢w. Specimens of Zere- 
bratula Buckmani, and of Ter. crickleyensis, had been 
found on the spoil-heaps, only loose.° On the occasion 
of a visit of the Club to the hill on June 2nd, 1906, 
I found, when in company with Mr C. Upton—a specimen 
of Zer. Buckmant, Dav., 7x sttu—in the bed Mr Buckman 
had assumed was the Buckmant-Grit. The “ Intervening 
Beds” at Rodborough Hill are, therefore, the Lower 
Trigonza- and Buckmani-Grits. Lycett collected many 
beautiful fossils from the Lower 77zgonza-Grit here, the 
majority of which were new, but he put them down 
as coming from the Gryphite-Grit. 
Above the “Intervening Beds” are those which, for 
convenience of descriptive purposes, may be called the 
“'Top-Beds.” In the Cotteswold Hills this term might 
be applied to all those deposits which intervene between 
the Upper 7Zyzgonza-Grit and the Fullers’ Earth, and 
inclusive of the former. 
J. Buckman, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. vi (1850), p. 242. 
Td., Vol. xlii (1886), pp. 269, 270. 
‘« Cotteswold Hills,” (1857), p. 60. 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., Vol. xvi (1860), p. 44. 
“ Geology of Stroud,” (1882), p. 38. 
Quart. Journ. Geol. Soe., li (1895), pp. 394, 395: 
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