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anticlinal. A synclinal axis is situated in the Cleeve-Hill plateau ; an 
anticlinal one at Birdlip; and a synclinal one again near Painswick— 
at or near the Frith Quarry. Here were the Lower Zrigonia- and 
Buckmani-Grits, beds absent from the Birdlip section on the north, 
and that at Selsley Hill on the south. 
A visit was then paid to Worgan’s Quarry on the top of the hill. 
The object of visiting this quarry was to see the Upper Coral-Bed. 
Mr Richardson said that until the publication of certain papers of his, 
it had been generally thought that this Upper Coral-Bed was of very 
limited geographical extent, but he had been able to show that the 
Coral-Beds of this quarry, Rodborough Hill, Midford and Dundry Hill, 
were contemporaneous deposits of Zruellei date. This discovery had 
proved of great importance, in that it formed a basis for the correlation 
of the higher Inferior-Oolite beds. Mr Upton said he had been very 
successful here also in obtaining a large number of micro-organisms, 
including C. Moore’s Sfiriferina oolitica, which he had found in 
material from the Coral-Bed of most localities." 
Crossing the hill, the Members came into view of the Painswick 
Valley. After a few words on the general structure of the district, 
the Frith Quarry was entered. The Ragstone Beds were examined, 
and then the interesting marly beds on the horizon of the Upper 
Freestone and Oolite Marl. From them, numbers of the character- 
istic little Rhynchonelle of the species Zated and cynomorpha were 
obtained. Passing out of this quarry, another just outside in the 
grassy hill-side was entered. It is in the Pea-Grit Coral-Bed, as the 
numerous masses of coral testified. Mr Charles Upton said that 
he had washed a great deal of the fine interstitial matter, and had 
obtained crowds of Ostracoda, micro-brachiopoda and Bryozoa, but 
before a complete list could be presented much research-work was 
necessary. 
After lunch, Mr Butt, the President, again feelingly referred to 
the sad death of their Hon. Treasurer, Mr A. S. Helps. A vote of 
condolence with the Misses Helps was passed in silence by the 
Members standing. 
Leaving the hotel at 2.15 p.m., the Members drove to Bisley, 
visiting first the Springs, for which the village is well known. The 
springs are due, Mr Richardson said, to rain-water falling upon the 
Great-Oolite limestones, percolating through them, and coming to 
the Fullers’-Earth Clay, through which it could not readily pass, and 
therefore flowed along the dip-slope of the clay, coming out at the 
first convenient opening. 
An industry of the neighbourhood of some interest is the making 
of ‘Bisley Slates.” As is well-known, the bottom-beds of the Great 
Oolite—those resting directly upon the Fullers’ Earth—are frequently 
sufficiently fissile to be split and shaped for roofing-purposes. For- 
merly the industry was fairly actively carried on in the Mid and 
1 Proc. Geol. Assoc., vol. xx, pt. 7 (1908), p. 522; Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., 
vol. lxiii (1907), pp. 413-414. 
