THE 
GHOLOGICAL MAGAZINK. 
NEW. SERIES.“  DEGADIE: Vas. VOL Witt 
No. VI.—JUNE, 1910. 
HIS MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY 
KING EDWARD VII 
PASSED AWAY MAY 6, 1910, 
BELOVED AND MOURNED BY ALL HIS PEOPLE, AFTER A SHORT BUT 
STRENUOUS REIGN OF NINE YEARS, DEVOTED TO ALL GOOD WORKS 
IN THE BRITISH DOMINIONS AND TO THE WELL-BEING AND PEACE 
OF THE NATIONS. 
ORIGINAL ARTICLES. 
I,—Norrs on a Coxztecrion oF Fosstz Prants From tHE NEWwENT 
CoaL-FIELD (GLOUCESTERSHIRE). 
By E. A. Newert Arser, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
T has been known for more than a hundred years past that 
a small tract of Upper Carboniferous rocks occurs in North- 
West Gloucestershire, between May Hill and the Malverns. The 
beds crop out in the neighbourhood of Newent, a village lying some 
ten miles to the north-west of Gloucester. The field, however, is 
almost entirely concealed beneath Triassic rocks. The measures are 
productive, and have been worked at various periods on a small scale, 
though the greater portion of the basin remains to this day unexplored. 
The geology of the district was first studied by the celebrated 
William Smith, in 1803 and 1805. In his manuscript notes,! published 
in 1844, there is a section of the sinking at Boulsden, or, as it was then 
apparently called, ‘ Bowsden,’ one mile south-west of Newent, where 
a coal-seam crops out. In the past the coal has been more extensively 
worked at this spot than at any other in the district. 
It is not proposed to enter here into the geology of this tract of 
Carboniferous rocks. What is known on the subject will be found in 
the papers by Weaver,? Maclauchlan,* Murchison,‘ and especially in 
the excellent Survey memoir dealing with the district of the Malvern 
1 J. Phillips, Memoirs of William Smith, 1844, pp. 54, 58. 
2 T. Weaver, Trans. Geol. Soc., 1824, ser. 11, vol. i, pt. ii, p. 317. 
3 H. Maclauchlan, Trans. Geol. Soc., 1837, ser. 11, vol. v, pt. i, p. 203. 
4 R. I. Murchison, Proc. Geol. Soc., 1835, vol. ii, No. 38, p. 121; see also The 
Silurian System, etc., London, 1839, p. 153. 
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