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ancient and interesting church in that village, with the remains of 
the old priory ip the manor house adjoining. 
The Members of the Club, who had been joined by the Geological 
Section from Doverow Hill, now proceeded to Stanley House, where. 
they were most handsomely entertained at lunch by Mr. and Mrs. W. 
H. Marling. 
From Stanley House the Members followed the course of the 
Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway to the Lightpill cutting; and 
then leaving the line, made their way to the gasworks, to examine a 
fine section in the upper beds of the Lower Lias, now exposed to a 
depth of 20 feet in the excavation for the new gasometer. 
The Club assembled for dinner at the George Hotel, Stroud, about 
5 p.m. After dinner, Mr. Lucy (who occupied the chair) read a 
communication from Mr. John Jones in reference to the occurrence 
of Helix lamellata in a sub-fossil state in a deposit at Stroud, and 
enclosing a note from Mr. Gwyn Jeffreys, in which its occurrence 
at Coptford in Essex, in a Post-Pliocene deposit, and in a living 
state at Anglesey and in nearly every part of Ireland, was noticed. 
The Rev. F. Smithe, at the request of the Chairman, gave a short 
account of the proceedings of the Geological Section during the day. 
He said that the cutting on the Stonehouse and Nailsworth Railway 
had proved to be interesting, not only on account of its fossil con- 
tents, but also from the fact that the excavation affords an oppor- 
tunity of examining a zone of the Middle Lias, or a series of beds, 
that are never worked for their intrinsic value—for the workings 
into the Marlstone for the sake of ‘road-metal’ always stop short 
of the peculiar underlying beds that had been visited to-day. Wal- 
lets might here soon be filled with the characteristic fossils of the 
section. ‘The zones included extend from the Ammonites spinosus 
to the A. Jamesoni, and well deserve close working; they constitute 
the ‘ Micaceous Sandstone’ of Murchison. A few of the leading shells 
met with were as follows:—Ammonites maculatus, common; Belem- 
nites brevis; Myacites, sp., abundant; a large Pinna, not unfrequent ; 
Monotis inequivalvis; Arca, not unlike A. Buckmani ; Rhynchonella 
concinna; large Pecten; Modiola scalprum; Pholadomya ambigua ; 
and remains of Crinoidea. He thought it would be very desirable 
to search for the Leptzna-bed, which he had found on Chosen Hill 
in a similar geological position. 
Mr. Witchell stated that he had found the Leptena-bed in some 
cellar-excavations near the Railway Station at Stroud, where it was 
about the same thickness as on Chosen Hi!l—from one to two inches ; 
and he had no doubt it would be found in the Lightpill cutting. He 
then called attention to the gravel-beds at Stonehouse, and at the 
Gasworks section, and inferred from their condition that consider- 
able changes occurred during the period in which the bottoms of the 
Stroud valleys had been excavated, and the deposition of the gravel, 
and afterwards of the peat, had taken place. All these gravels rest 
upon excavated hollows in the Middle and Lower Lias. 
: This subject will ,be further investigated by the Club at a future 
ate. 
