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have been made increasingly enjoyable, and we have no doubt that a 
continuance of the practice will contribute to the vitality of the Club. 
The tragic death of Mr A. S. Helps, Hon. Treasurer, cast a 
shadow over Tuesday’s proceedings, and early in the day Mr Butt, 
the President, made feeling allusion to it. He said that but for the 
fact of their being the guests of Sir John Dorington later in the day, 
he should have been disposed to propose the abandonment of the 
meeting as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased. In 
Mr Helps they had lost an old and respected member, and one whom 
they were all sorry to lose. After the luncheon he would propose a 
vote of condolence with the family. 
These words were uttered nearly at the top of Vicarage Lane, Slad, 
to which point the Members climbed, after being driven from Stroud 
G.W.R. station, via the Slad, to the foot of the lane. Although the 
weather was somewhat dull, and a passing shower necessitated the 
use of umbrellas for a short time, the beautiful view to be obtained in 
making the ascent of the hill to Worgan’s Quarry was much admired, 
more particularly the Scrubbs Valley. Before entering the quarry, 
Mr Charles Upton explained the stratigraphical nature of the rocks 
that were to be seen in descending order from the point on which 
members then stood. The original intention had been to drive via 
Old Painswick Road to Frith Quarry, at the bottom of Juniper Hill, 
and then ascend to Worgan’s Quarry at the top of Vicarage Lane. 
The same end would, however, be served by working down the hill. 
Mr Upton then stated in detail the beds to be found in the immediate 
district, commencing with the Upper Coral-Bed in Worgan’s Quarry, 
down to the Lower Freestone, and Pea-Grit. 
Mr Richardson then gave a general account of the geology. He 
said that during the past few years the Club had made a considerably- 
detailed study of the Inferior Oolite of the Cotteswold Hills, and their 
examination of this section completed their investigations of that 
Series in the Mid and South Cotteswolds. During their many ex- 
cursions in the Cotteswold Hills he had endeavoured as clearly as 
possible to explain the results of the researches conducted by Mr 
S. S. Buckman and himself,‘ which had extended over more than ten 
years. The most important discovery was that it had been found 
that the Inferior Oolite, instead of being a series of comparatively 
homogeneous rocks and of continuous deposition, was one of con- 
siderable diversity of lithic structure and of frequently-interrupted 
formation. The most noticeable interruption was one that took place 
after by far the greater portion of the Series had been deposited, and 
consisted in the lateral compression, consequent flexuring, and subse- 
quent denudation of the anticlinally-disposed rocks, and the preser- 
vation of the synclinally-disposed, according to the amount of their 
depression. On the plane of erosion was laid down the bed called the 
Upper-Z7igonia-Grit. The sub-Upper-Z7igonia-Grit Inferior-Oolite 
beds are therefore thickest in the synclinal areas and thinnest in the 
x “ Handbook Geol. Cheltenham ” (1904), pp. 142-146. 
