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its duties. If, from want of talents or of leisure, or from the distance of my. residence, 1 should 
be found inadequate to the satisfactory performance of what is imposed by the office, I shall con- 
fidently rely upon your indulgence, and upon the assistance of the committee, or shall resign into 
your hands the trust you have confided in me, with the same cheerfulness and thankfulness with 
which I, in the first instance, accepted it.” _ 
The accounts of the Society were read, and the committee for the year appointed. (Norfolk 
Chronicle, Nov. 28. 1829.) 
GLOUCESTERSHIRE. 
Natural History Society. — A Society has been established at Gloucester, 
the enquiries of which are to be dedicated to subjects of natural history. Dr. 
Barron has accepted the office of president. (Hereford Journal, July 29.) 
Fossil Remains from Foxcote. — In 1827, my employer had a well sunk on 
one of his farms, for the use of his cattle, upon those beautiful hills near 
Foxcote. It is 70 ft. in depth, and these stones ( fig. 35.) came out of it, save 
one that was given me by a friend from Newland, and which was taken out of 
a gravel pit in that parish, near Shipston on Stour, Worcestershire. If you 
should find them useful, they are much at your service; and I remain, Sir, 
yours, &«.—W. B. Rose, Gardener. Foxcote, Sept. 6. 1829. 
The fossils with which we have been favoured by Mr. W. B. Rose, have 
been submitted to the examination of Mr. J. D. C. Sowerby, who has com- 
municated the following catalogue : — 
a, Ammoniées hawskeriénsis Young and Bird. i, Terebratula média Min. Con. 
b, Pholadom¥a prodiicta Min. Con. k, Terebratula tetratdra Min. Con. 
ce, Venus? A cast found also at Pickeridge Hill. The unfigured specimens are fragments of 
d, Amphidésma pholadiformis Phillips, York- two species of Ammon/fes ; an impression, pro- 
shire. Pullastra Murchison, Geol. Trans. bably, of Am. planicésta, apparently from the 
e, Pécten xquivalvis Min. Con. lias; a fragment of a species of Pécten; Sér- 
Jf, Terebratula orbicularis (new species). pula (imperfect), Belemnites, and Peutacrinus ; 
g, Terebratula ovéides ? Min. Con. fragments of Gryphe‘a? O/’strea? and Belems 
h, Terebratula bidens (new species). nites ? 
Without being able to point out the precise locality whence these fossils 
were collected by our correspondent, we have little hesitation in assigning 
them to the inferior oolite; and are probably correct in referrmg them to the 
brown, ferruginous, and micaceous sandstone which is situated near the 
lower part of the series, towards the lias, and in which the large Pécten 
aequivalvis is the most distinguishing shell. This bed appears to be the same 
as that described by Messrs. Coneybeare and Phillips, under the term “ marly 
sandstone.” Most of the fossils in the foregoing list will be found in that 
furnished by the authors of the Outlines of the Geology of England and 
Wales. Fine sections of this portion of the oolitic series occur in the 
western escarpment of the Coteswold Hills of Gloucestershire, and upon the 
