226 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB (1909) 
Returning to the neighbourhood of Hapsford Mills the Rhetic 
sections were studied. The Rhetic Black Shales are largely repre- 
sented by layers of conglomerate, the constituents of which are 
mainly pebbles derived from the underlying Carboniferous Limestone. 
At the northern end of the second quarry from Hapsford Mills, that 
in which the Limestone is somewhat flexured, the conglomerate is 
well developed, and the basal portion very interesting. 
Most of the pebbles are conspicuously bored, especially by a 
species of Polydora, a lithodomous worm," and are embedded in a 
very shelly matrix. Of the shells, Ostrea fimbriata, Moore, is the 
most interesting, as it is extremely rare elsewhere. ‘‘A series of 
thinly laminated grey marls” represents a portion of the ‘‘ Upper 
Rhetic?’ and is succeeded by conglomerates and White Lias. The 
top-bed of the White Lias is conspicuously bored, quite as much so 
as the Carboniferous Limestone immediately below the Oolite. This 
White Lias is succeeded by the Inferior Oolite, so we are here 
dealing with the plane of the Bajocian Denudation. Further to the 
north, away from the anticlinorium of the Mendip Hills, additional 
beds come in between the White Lias and the Oolite—first the 
Lower Lias, then the Middle and Upper, and last the Aalenian and 
Bajocian divisions of the series generally better known in this country 
(along with the basement beds of the overlying Bathonian) as the 
‘Inferior Oolite.” The borings in the top-bed of the Notgrove 
Freestone at Leckhampton Hill; of the freestones of MMJurchisone 
hemera around Dursley, and the White Lias and Carboniferous Lime- 
stone in Vallis Vale, near Frome, were made at approximately the 
same time. 
After Mr Winwood had made some remarks on the section, 
Mr Richardson added that he had found remains of plants (Lycopodttes) 
in the bed concerning which Charles Moore had written: “‘it is a 
matter of regret that the thin laminated marls, No. 12, have not 
yielded any fossils, as they appear so suited for the presentation of 
any delicate organisms, such as Zstheria, plants, or insects.” Moore 
also entertained some doubt about the white limestone being White 
Lias, but there need be none. 
Re-joining the brake, the drive was continued into Frome, which 
was reached about 6.30 p.m. As some time still remained before 
dinner, the Church was visited. 
Headquarters were at the George Hotel. After.dinner, the 
President referred to the great loss the Woolhope Naturalists’ Field 
Club had sustained in the death of their President, H. Cecil Moore, 
a man with a remarkable career, unbounded energy, and illimitable 
kindness. The Hon. Secretary was instructed to write to the Hon. 
Secretary of the Woolhope Club conveying their expression of 
sympathy. The President then communicated some notes on the 
etymology of the word ‘‘ Frome,” Frome Church and Nunney Castle. 
1 See F. A. Bather, Geol. 7, Mag., 1909, pp. 108-110. 
2 Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxiii (1867), p. 491. 
