92 Reports and Proceedings. 
The most curious section, however, was that near the powder-house, 
where the railway skirts the edge of Kingsweston-park; the beds 
are contorted, and thrust upwards in the middle, forming an anti- 
clinal curve. These curved strata belong to the Old-red-sandstone 
series; and lying horizontally on the top of them is a bed of New- 
red-conglomerate. After passing beds of red clays and sands, the 
party left the line of the railway, and came down through Shire- 
hampton into the marshes, where the botanists and zoologists found 
many opportunities of adding both to their collections and to their 
knowledge of the habitat of many minute organisms. 
At a quarter past four the whole party re-assembled at Hooper’s 
Hotel. Mr. Sanders then gave a briet geological sketch of the 
sections passed through that morning, and concluded by calling on 
Professor Buckman, who after referring to the fact of his having 
been secretary for seven years to the Cotteswold Field-club, said 
that he had met that day with a greater variety of plants than usual 
in a walk of the same extent, and especially was this the case with 
the grasses, which were his peculiar study.— Bristol Duily Post, 
June 20th. 
Ture DupLtey snp MipLanp GEOLOGICAL SocieTY AND FIELp- 
cLus.—The first field-meeting was held at Cannock Chase, on 21st 
June. After leaving the Brownhills Station the party crossed the 
great Eastern Fault of the South Staffordshire Coalfield, and after 
traversing the more ancient collieries at Brownhills entered the ex- 
tensive Cannock Chase Colliery, held by Messrs. McClean and Co. 
of the Marquis of Anglesea. Four seams of coal are here worked. 
The value of the ‘Shallow’ and ‘Deep’ coal-seams is well known. 
Gas is introduced into the pits as well as used on the surface, and the 
whole arrangements, both above and below ground, are unexceptional. 
The next point of geological interest was the section of coal-measures 
laid bare in cutting a branch line to the Hednesford Collieries. After 
visiting these latter works the members met for dinner and discussion, 
and a paper was read by Mr. Jones (the Secretary) on ‘ Organization 
in Field-club Work. —J. J. 
CORRESPONDENCE. 
Seen gree ene 
ON THE OCCURRENCE OF CycLoID FIsH-scALEs, &C., IN THE OoLitTic 
FORMATION. 
To the Editors of the GroLocicaL MAGAZINE. 
12 has hitherto been stated, that the remains of Cycloid and 
Ctenoid Fishes are not met with in strata older than those of 
the Chalk formation; an opinion, I believe, originating with that dis- 
tinguished ichthyologist, M. Agassiz, when forming his arrangement 
of fishes by their scales into the four orders, namely, Placoid, Ganoid, 
Ctenoid, and Cycloid. 
In a paper read before the Geological Society of London, Nov. 5, 
