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attracted to a roadside section of Lias, consisting of the sandy and 
highly fossiliferous beds, immediately below the Marlstone, which 
are rarely exposed. ‘The view from the summit of the hill is very 
extensive, comprising the Liassic outliers of Stanley and Dumbleton 
and the more distant hills of Bredon, the Malverns, and May Hill. 
Several large quarries of Inferior Oolite were visited, shewing the 
Upper and Lower Freestones, not very rich in fossils, the latter afford- 
ing an excellent building stone, as at Birdlip, Chene, and Leck- 
hampton, near Cheltenham; the pisolite and oolite-marl being 
absent. The most abundant fossils were some Terebra/ule and 
Rhynchonelle, and one specimen of Hyboclypus agariciformis. 
Higher up these Freestones are overlain by the Ragstones, which 
abound in organic remains, among which the following were noticed : 
Nautilus, Belemnites brevis, Ostrea Marshii, Corbula, Astarte exca- 
vata, Gervillia Hartmanni, Modiola, Serpu/e, and casts of Trigonia 
costata, and Cucullea, but no Gryphites. Descending the hill, about 
two miles from this point, the Upper Lias was observed with numerous 
fossils — Ammonites communis and Inoceramus dubius. Below 
this a slip has taken place, and brought down masses of Oolite which 
have filled up hollows in the Upper Lias. The Rev. P. Brodie gave 
a general sketch of the geology of the district, pointing out the ex- 
tension of the same strata into Gloucestershire. 
The second meeting was held at Cleobury Mortimer, in Shrop- 
shire, on June 20th, extending through the week, the Club always 
holding one distant meeting in the year for several days. Excur- 
sions were made to Clee Hill, Oreton, Farlow, and Wyre Forest. 
The more special points of interest were the trappean upthrow of 
the Clees bursting through the Coal, the fine sections of Mountain- 
limestone near Oreton, abounding in remains of Cestraciont fishes, 
and the yellow sandstone of Farlow, from which the first British 
Pterichthys was obtained not long since. The railway through the 
forest from Bewdley to Tenbury affords some interesting sections of 
the Coal-measures. The geologists of the party obtained several 
characteristic fossils from the latter, and some teeth of Helodus, 
Orodus, Psammodus, and Cochliodus ; also shells and corals from the 
Mountain-limestone, and portions of Pterichthys and Holoptychius 
from the Yellow Sandstone, the equivalent of the beds at Dura Den 
in Scotland, and well worth a careful examination. The botanists ob- 
tained some rare plants, of which the Rev. G. Henslow furnished a 
copious list. This was a joint meeting of the Warwickshire Club 
with the Severn Valley Club, and in the course of the excursion 
addresses were delivered on the geology of the neighbourhood, by 
the Rev. W. Purton and the Rev. P. B. Brodie. Mr. Weaver Jones, 
the only local geologist, kindly invited the Clubs to view his 
choice collection of fossils, which is especially rich in fish-teeth and 
spines, from Oreton; and he is always ready to shew it to any one 
who may wish to inspect it. On this occasion the Club experienced 
much hospitality and kindness from him and the Rey. S. Lowndes, 
the curate of Cleobury,—P. B. B. 
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