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fortunately for me, but not so fortunately for science, they have 
left me in possession of a strip of fresh ground, almost virgin 
soil, which will afford me material for this Paper. 
I begin with Upper Greensand, a formation which according to 
Mr. A. J. Jukes-Browne, our latest and best authority, occupies a 
larger area in Wilts than in any other county of England except 
Devon. (‘Cretaceous Rocks,” 227.) Its head quarters are 
Warminster and Devizes. I learn from the volumes of the Bath 
Field Club that its Members have been to Longleat, to Potterne, 
Savernake and other places of fossiliferous repute and yet there 
is no record of any geological papers read, no mention of any 
search for fossils,—churches and mansions having apparently 
monopolised the attention of the excursionists. It is still more 
remarkable that the Wilts Archzeological and Natural History 
Society has left the Upper Greensand unnoticed with the exception 
of one Paper written in 1864 entitled ‘The Geology of the Berks 
and Hants and Marlborough Railways,” by Mr. Thos. Codrington, 
F.G.S.; an admirable Paper, but dealing only with railway 
cuttings about Savernake, Pewsey, Marlborough and Devizes, 
leaving the important districts of Westbury and Warminster 
untouched. (Wilts Arch., IX. 167.) In the last meeting that 
Charles Moore ever attended, namely at Bradford-on-Avon, 
Aug. 9-11, 1881, just four months before his lamented death in 
December, he stated plainly that “he had never worked in these 
beds.” (XX. 53.) Six years previously, June 5-6, 1876, when 
the Geologists’ Association selected Swindon and Faringdon for 
their Whitsun Excursion, Professor John Morris, Mr. Chas. 
Moore and myself were nominated Directors. Mr. Moore put in 
an appearance at Swindon and was very busy with the Purbeck 
beds, where he found remains of marsupials, reptiles and insects, 
but I could not persuade him to join us on the second day, 
because, he said, he had never interested himself in the Jower 
Greensand. This is no reproach to the memory of Chas. Moore 
for whom I have unbounded admiration ; for he was intensely 
