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and unsportsmanlike weapon, tlie " punt-gun " : on one occasio.i, 

 he remarks, no less than 285 Dunlin and 5 "Wigeon fell to one 

 shot ! And this in the name of Sport 1 1 



The illustrations, which are numerous, are drawn by the author 

 himself, and are really the most admirable and spirited pen-and-ink 

 sketches which we have seen for a long time. In a word, this 

 is a book to read and a book to keep, W. P. Pyckaft. 



rilOCEEDIj^GS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



June 19th, 1907.— Aubrey Strahan, Sc.D., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. 'The Inferior Oolite and Contiguous Deposits of the Bath- 

 Doulting District.' By Linsdall Richardson, F.G.S. 



In this paper a detailed description is given of the Inferior Oolite 

 of the country between Doulting and Bath. The beds have been 

 studied at ditibrent localities within the area by several geologists, 

 but in most cases only the actual facts observable were recorded — 

 there was little or no attempt at correlation. Xow it is shown 

 that there is within the area no Inferior-Oolite deposit of earlier 

 date than the Uj)per Trigoiiia-(}nt — a deposit of Garantiano' 

 hemera. In the hills south of the Avon Valley at Bath, and as 

 far south as a line drawn east and west through Carnicote, near 

 Timsbury, this deposit rests upon the Midford Sands. South of 

 this line, and between it and one similarly orientated about half- 

 a-mile farther south, it rests upon the local Cephalopod-Bed : here 

 of greater antiquity than the ' Sands ' (Midford) ; not younger, as 

 in the case of the Cotteswold Cephalopod-Bed. South of the latter 

 line, the U])per Trigonia-(^JV\i, often conglomeratic, rests upon the 

 non-arenaceous Liassic deposits, until in the more immediate 

 neighbourliood of tlie !Mendip Hills it is overstepped by the 

 Doulting Stone, which rests directly upon the well-planed, bored, 

 and oyster-strewn surface of the Rhtetic White Lias and tlie Car- 

 boniferous Limestone. On the south side of the Mendip Hills the 

 Upper Trir/onia-Grit comes in again. 



The Fullers' Earth at Midford, at least the lower part, is of 

 zif/zat/ hemera. The intervening Inferior Oolite between it and 

 the Upi)er Trigonia-Grit may be thus divided, dated, and com- 

 pared : — 



