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devoted and inseparably wedded to Lias, Rhetic and Oolite, with 
the most happy result that the Bath Museum is in possession of a 
suite of priceless remains from those three formations which is 
without parallel in any collection in Europe or America. Mr. 
Moore’s place, I may just add, was filled by my deceased friend, 
Mr. C. J. A. Meyer, who knew the Coxwell quarries and their 
contents by heart. 
Before I describe the leading fossils of the U.G.S., I should 
like to say a few words on the position and importance of its 
beds. As a rule, the U.G.S. lies at the bottom slopes of the 
Chalk downs, spreading out for two or three miles ; not, however, 
in a level tract, but undulating and marked by hills which attain 
elevations of 400 feet and upwards. Devizes, for example, is 
400 feet above sea level ; Horningsham 550; Maiden Bradley 
700; Alfred’s Tower 850. The U.G.S. is invariably the most 
picturesque part of the Cretaceous formation: it is also the most 
fertile and the best wooded. Where will you find such a wealth 
and luxuriance of trees and shrubs as at Longleat and Savernake ? 
If I wished to take a farm or recommend a friend in the choice 
of taking one, I should certainly look out for one on the U.G.S., 
because of its productiveness and its suitability alike for grass, 
corn, timber and hops. The Rev. J. Clutterbuck, M.A, who 
some years ago wrote a Prize Essay on the “ Agriculture of 
Berks,” styles the Greensand “the glory of the county,” and 
what is true of Berks holds still better for Wilts. Lord Avebury, 
in his “Scenery of England and Wales,” remarks that there is 
scarcely any waste of land in a Greensand district (p. 442). 
Johnston in his Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry tells us that 
““where Chalk and Greensand meet, extremely fertile patches of 
country present themselves, the soil at their junction being 
celebrated for their crops of wheat” (p. 104). Besides being a 
sure corn-producing soil, it is always well watered. In the words 
of Horace Woodward, the author of the Geology of England and 
Wales, the U.G.S. is “ essentially a water bearing stratum” 
