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development of the zones on the Yorkshire Coast and their lithic 
structure are distinctly interesting. 
It was stated by Mr Richardson that a well sunk through the 
floor of the quarry immediately to the north of ‘‘ Quarry House” 
(Fig. 2, Pl. XVIII) passed into the Capricornus-Beds. The pieces of 
rock and fossils obtained from the material which had been dug out 
showed that this bed was precisely the same as its equivalent at 
Sodbury," Dudbridge,? Robins’-Wood Hill, and Pilford (Cheltenham),? 
and afforded a useful datum-level.* 
EXCURSION TO THE MALVERN HILLS 
TUESDAY, June 23rd, 1908 
Directors: C. CALLAWAY, M.A., D.Sc., and J. W. GRay, F.G.S. 
(Report by W. THOMPSON) 
Those present were :—the Rev. Walter Butt, M.A. (President), 
Dr. C. Callaway and Mr C. Upton (Vice-Presidents), Lieut.-Col. J. C. 
Duke, Col. Routh, Dr. S. Cowley, Surg.-Major I. Newton, Dep. 
Surg.-Gen. G. A. Watson, and Messrs W. H. Barnes, C. Curtis, 
J. M. Dixon, O. H. Fowler, S. G. Hamilton, J. W. Gray, F.G.S., 
J. N. Hobbs, H. Knowles, A. Morris, Carleton Rea and W. 
Thompson. 
In the absence of Mr L. Richardson, the Hon. Secretary, who 
was away in Yorkshire, the arrangements were ably carried out by 
Mr J. W. Gray. These included a brake drive from Malvern 
railway-station to various rock-exposures, some of them situated well 
up the hills, and at one point, while the two principal speakers ventil- 
ated their views on Archean rock-formation, the other Members, 
seated or lying upon the scant herbage which covers the rocks at 
this particular place, enjoyed the a/ fresco luncheon which each had 
been advised to provide before starting from home. This agreeable 
part of the programme came off at The Wyche, and Dr C. Callaway 
first addressed the gathering on the complex record of geological 
1 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lviii (1902), p. 730. 
2 Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., vol. xvi, pt. 1 (1907), p- 16. 
3 “Handbook Geol. of Cheltenham” (1904), p. 46; Proc. Cotteswold Nat. F.C., 
vol. xv., pt. 3 (1906), p. 183. 
4 The well at the west end of Cossington on the road to Halmore (Fig. 2, pl. xviii) 
is in the Va/dani-Beds: Acanthopleuroceras Valdant (d’Orb.) and Belemnites clavatus, 
Blainv., having been found there by Mr E, T. Paris in clay that had been dug out, 
together with Cardinia attenuata (Stutchbury), Astarte sp., Pentacrinus-ossicles, and 
a species of Serpzla. 
