46 . Obiiuari/ — Mr. C. J. A. Jfei/er, 



A third little syncline occurs at the Inett and Caughley. Similar 

 phenomena are exhibited in the Forest of Wyre Coalfield, where 

 a series of unproductive measures come in between the Lower and 

 Upper Coal-measures. The axis of the folds runs east-north-east- 

 ward, and their amplitude and length diminish in proceeding from 

 north-west to south-east. Inter-Carboniferous folds also occur in 

 -the North Wales and North Staffordshire fields. 



3. "Bajocian and Contiguous Deposits in the Northern Cottes- 

 wolds : the Main Hill Mass." By S. S. Buckman, Esq., F.G.S. 



After giving comparative sections at Cleeve, Leckhampton Hill, 

 and Birdiip, to show the disappearance of three horizons at the 

 second locality and five more at the third, the author interprets the 

 absence of the beds as due to ' pene-contemporaneous erosion,' 

 brought about by the elevation of rocks, due to small earth- 

 movements along a main south-west to north-east axis and subsidiary 

 axes north-west to south-east. In the Northern Cotteswolds the 

 beds which come in at Cleeve disappear, while there is a development 

 of the Harford Sands, the Tilestone, and the Snowshill Clay above 

 the Lower Trigonia-Gvit. A series of detailed sections along the 

 main hill-mass is given. On tracing the rocks from west to east 

 across the Northern Cotteswolds, the whole of the Inferior Oolite 

 <lisappears, except quite the upper portion, which rests directly on 

 Upper Lias, and the Upper Lias itself undergoes denudation ; 

 eastward the latter thickens again, and basal beds of Inferior Oolite 

 I'eappear. Thus the axis of an important anticline is along the 

 Vale of Moreton. The general result of the observations does not 



■ confirm Professor Hull's view that these members of the Jurassic 

 are thinning and disappearing eastward. The observed phenomena 

 were really brought about by contemporaneous erosions ; whereof 

 the principal one occurred before the deposition of the Upper 

 Trigonia-Grit. A revised map of Bajocian denudation is given, 

 and it is shown that, owing to anticlinal axes along the Vales of 

 Bourton and Moreton, pene-contemporaneous erosion must have 

 had considerable influence in determining the position of these 

 valleys. Such erosion is likely to have taken place along similar 

 lines at different times, and therefore may be connected with folds 

 in Pala30zoic rocks and may have a bearing on the thickness of 

 rocks overlying the Coal-measures. A table of the dates of the 



■ chief erosions in Jurassic times is appended to the paper. 



OBITTrJLI?.3r. 



CHARLES JOHN ADRIAN MEYER. 



BoEN May 23, 1832. Died July 16, 1900. 



By the death of Mr. Charles Meyer we have lost a geologist who 



■ has contributed largely to our knowledge of Cretaceous rocks and 



fossils. He belonged to a family in whom a love of natural history 



was inherent, and from the time of his leaving school until his 



appointment to the Civil Service he greatly assisted in the pre- 



.paration of a new edition of H. L. Meyer's " Illustrations of British 



