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ruins, and Canon Bazeley gave an address on what he described as a 
fine example of medizval architecture. The church, which must have 
been a fine building in its day, has entirely vanished, a result brought 
about by the construction of the canal, but there still remain a pic- 
turesque gateway and the ruins of the old barn. The site has recently 
been purchased by the Great Western Railway Company from Mr 
J. M. Collett, a Member of the Club. That gentleman said the sale 
to the Company was effected somewhat more quickly than he expected. 
It was his desire that the Company should, if they could see their 
way to do so, hand the Priory ruins over to some authority to ensure 
their preservation. 
At the Council Meeting, the President announced, a resolution 
had been passed approving the action of the Bristol and Gloucester- 
shire Archeological Society in endeavouring to prevent the further 
destruction of the Priory. Canon Bazeley now thanked the Council 
for its recommendation to the Club, and promise of support. He 
added that the Archeological Society had already appoinied a sub- 
committee to wait upon the Great Western Railway Company, with 
a view of inducing them to preserve the ruins, and he would now 
suggest that a sub-committee of the Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field 
Club should be chosen for the same purpose. This was agreed to, 
the committee selected being Messrs M. H. Medland, G. W. Keeling, 
J. M. Collett, and L. Richardson. 
The following paper was then read :— 
‘© SOME GLOUCESTERSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY Notes.” By 
the Rev. A. R. Winnington-Ingram. 
Mr Northam Witchell exhibited some fine Egyptian implements 
belonging to the Paleolithic Age. 
TUESDAY, February 16th, 1909. 
REV. WALTER BUTT, M.A., President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Hon. Secretary exhibited pebbles bored by a lithodomous 
worm (1) from the Rhetic conglomerate of a section near Hapsford 
Mills, in the Vallis Vale, near Erome, which was investigated by the 
Club in 1908, and (2) from the present Yorkshire coast, near 
Flamborough. So similar were the borings made by the worms of 
the Rhetic and present periods that it was scarcely desirable to 
specifically distinguish them." 
Dr E. W. Prevost, M.A., F.R.S.E., then gave a lecture entitled 
‘‘ Algerian Scenery,”* but the lecturer remarked that he did not 
rt See F, A, Bather, Geol, Mag., 1908, pp- 108-110, 
