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I came away without a specimen, and the prospect of better 
success in the future has dwindled to vanishing point by the fact 
that the particular field of former exploration has been laid down 
for pasture.* Mr. Jukes-Browne says that he “purchased a 
handful” in 1889 (Cret. Rocks, 239), and there ends the history 
of Chute farm as a fossil bearing locality. If, therefore, the 
members of the Bath Field Club, or other members of what 
Pengelly called the “stone-breaking fraternity,” are desirous of 
gathering fossils from the Wiltshire Upper Greensands, I should 
certainly not direct their steps to Chute farm, but to Sutton Veny, 
near Heytesbury ; to Corsley, near Westbury,t where Mr. Jukes- 
Browne reports “one of the best sections in a pit at Water farm” 
(p. 237) ; to Urchfont, Potterne and Devizes. _Woodborough, 
when Mr. Codrington saw the newly made railway cuttings in 
1864, was “remarkable for its sponges.” So also was Savernake, 
as the Devizes museum bears splendid evidence ; but I presume 
that the cuttings have long since been covered with vegetation 
and closed to trespassers. The U.G.S. is exhibited so typically at 
Devizes, especially by the station and at “ Ewart’s rocks,” that it 
was at one time suggested to call the whole formation Devisian ; 
but an eminent French geologist, Renevier, had anticipated our 
Government Surveyors with the term Divesien (from Dives in 
* «Warminster, Wiltshire. From the Upper Greensand of this locality 
entire forms of sponges have been met with in one or two limited areas, but 
they are of comparatively rare occurrence and appear to be seldom found at 
the present day.”—Dr. G. J. Hinde in Philosoph. Trans. of the Roy. Soc. for 
1885, Part II., p. 419. 
+ ‘© There is a farm house near the church, once aninn. Sir Walter Raleigh 
at the time of his disgrace lived here privately in a farm house which is still 
shown. It is said of him that coming to this inn and taking out his pipe and 
lighting it in his room by himself, the landlord was so frightened at what he 
saw and the smoke coming out of his mouth without his being discomposed by 
it that on leaving his house and asking what he had to pay, the landlord 
refused to take his money, concluding it must be Satan himself come to tempt 
him.”— Modern Wiltshire, III., 63. 
