296 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE, ETC. 



REPTILE-BEARING OOLITE, STOW. 



Report of Committee appointed to investigate the reptile-bearing Oolite near 

 Stow on the Wold, subject to the condition that suitable arrangements, 

 be made for the disposal of the material (Sir A. Smith Woodward, 

 F.R.S., Chairman ; Mr. C. I. Gardiner, Secretary ; Prof. S. H. 

 Reynolds, Dr. W. E. Swinton). 



Reptilian bones, first observed by the secretary in 1935, are found in two 

 quarries in the Chipping Norton Limestone (Inferior Oolite, fusca and 

 zigzag hemerae) near Stow on the Wold, Gloucestershire. 



The bones occur in a hard, cream-coloured limestone which is worked 

 for road metal. Fossils other than reptilian remains are not common, but 

 among those from the New Park quarry was Parkihsonia Neuffensis (Oppel), 

 kindly determined by Mr. J. W. Tutcher. 



The two quarries are the New Park quarry, about z\ miles north-west of 

 Stow on the Wold, and the Little Rollright quarry, which lies about a 

 mile west-north-west of Little Compton. 



From the Little Rollright quarry a Theropod Dinosaur is represented by 

 an ilium, a pubis, a sacrum, a coracoid, a tooth and a metatarsal. This is 

 probably a Megalosaurus. 



From the New Park quarry the bones obtained are more varied and 

 interesting. They include remains of : 



Steneosaurus. — Two examples of the posterior part of the cranium ; an 

 upper jaw and the adjacent parts of the cranium ; a small portion of the 

 upper jaw with well-preserved teeth ; several fragments of the lower jaw ; 

 six vertebrae and a large scute. 



Cetiosaurus ? — A well-preserved rib, considerably larger than the mid- 

 dorsal ribs of the big Megalosaurus in the Oxford museum, is probably 

 that of a Sauropod dinosaur (? Cetiosaurus). Several large fragmentary 

 bones may also be those of Sauropods. 



Stegosaurus. — The most interesting finds were two dorsal plates of 

 Stegosaurus. These specimens were most skilfully extracted from the 

 hard limestone by the preparators in the British Museum (Natural History), 

 Messrs. Barlow and Parsons. The committee is much indebted to them. 

 It also wishes to thank the Keeper of the Geological Department for per- 

 mitting this work to be done at the Museum. Other specimens remain to 

 be worked out. 



The collection is being studied by Prof. S. H. Reynolds, who proposes to 

 publish a description of the more important discoveries. It will then be 

 divided between the British Museum (Natural History) and the Stroud 

 Museum. The whole of the grant of £20 has been expended on the collection 

 and preparation of the fossils. 



