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The various points of geological interest were pointed out and 

 explained by Mr. John Young to the members of the society ; and as 

 they rested on the hill-side they were favoured, under a clear 

 atmosphere, with a most varied and extensive view : — spread out 

 before them, like a map, lay the great coal basin of central Scotland, 

 with its undulating heights and cultivated fields — to the south-west, 

 dimly seen in the distance, was Goatfell, and one or two more of the 

 Arran mountains, towering over the trappean hills of Ayrshire, 

 which, with the hills of Eenfrewshire and Lanarkshire, bounded the 

 view to the south and south-west — Tinto soaring over all in front, 

 and the Pentlands closing in the view on the extreme east, while the 

 more elevated range of the Campsie Fells closed in the view on the 

 north. 



CoTTESwoLD Naturalists' FiELD-ciiUB.-;-The members assembled 

 for the first Field-day of the season, at Haresfield Station, on May 

 16th. 



The Haresfield section was first examined : and from thence the 

 members preceded to the small quarry on Broadbarrow-green, where 

 there is a wonderful display of the Gryphite grit. The quarry above 

 White's Hill was examined, where the Trigonia-beds and Oolite 

 marl received due attention ; some of the Trigonioe being almost as 

 sharp and well-defined as recent shells. 



At Scot's Quar, Captain Dickinson, of Brown's Hill, provided an 

 excellent luncheon, to which the club did ample justice. 



Under the guidance of Messrs. PuUen and Witchell, both well 

 acquainted with the geology of the district, the club proceeded to in- 

 vestigate the Coral-beds of the Inferior Oolite. Crossing the Pains- 

 wick Valley, to Juniper Hill, they examined a coral-bed twenty feet 

 thick, which has been ascertained to extend for several miles. This 

 hill is capped with strata charged with the characteristic Terehratula 

 globosa. 



The club dined at the Imperial Hotel at Stroud, after which they 

 proceeded to discuss various subjects of interest. A good specimen 

 of a bird, now somewhat rare in -Great Britain, viz., the Dartford 

 Warbler (MelizopMlus provincialis) , obtained by Mr. Jenner Fust, in 

 Kent, was exhibited ; also some relics of a Eoman villa by the hon. 

 secretary. Dr. Paine. These were obtained on the site of a house 

 now being erected by Mr. Wethered, at Stroud. Dr. Wright then 

 gave an interesting address on the pal^ontological evidence afibrded 

 by the sands of the Upper Lias of the Haresfield and other Cottes- 

 wold sections, illustrating his remarks by the exhibition, of several 

 beautiful and typical fossils. He mentioned that more than twenty 

 years ago he had detected the peculiar and distinctive Ammonite, the 

 Am. opalinus of Eeineker, in the Upper Lias sands at Haresfield. 

 This form of Ammonite marks this zone of deposits, between the 

 Lias and the Inferior Oolite, at Braun Jura, at Gmiind, and at Gun- 

 dershofen. Lower Ehine. The form of Ammonite which may be 

 said to replace it in the Inferior Oolite is the Am. Murchisonice. Dr. 

 Wright declared that the sands possess an entirely different fauna 



