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valley and a line joining its upper part with the ontfall of the Avon 

 into the Severn. It is assuredly, however, a priori almost necessary 

 that if such a flood of waters once passed over this more southern 

 zone, that it must have left abundant traces far beyond these limits, 

 and that we ought to find such traces much further north and among 

 those beds which have been hitherto left entirely in the hands of the 

 Glacialists. I believe that such traces do in fact exist on a very 

 notable scale, and that it is because the postulate of a Post-Glacial 

 catastrophe has been overlooked by those who have examined them, 

 that much which is obscure, difficult, and contradictory about these 

 beds refuses to yield to explanation. I will now turn to them, and 

 the next paper will deal with the Evidence of the Marine Drift. ^ 



[To be continued.) 



I. — PfiOCEEDINGS OF THE COTTESWOLD NaTUEALISTS' FiELD ClUB, 



for 1881-1882. 



THIS part of the Proceedings of the Cotteswold Club commences 

 their eighth volume, and includes accounts of the thirty-sixth 

 and thirty-seventh annual meetings. At these meetings, held (in 

 1881 and 1882) at Gloucester, addresses were delivered by the Presi- 

 dent, Sir William V. Guise, Bart., P.L.S., F.G.S., etc. The losses 

 sustained by the Club, by the death of John Jones (of Gloucester), 

 Charles Moore (of Bath), and Dr. John Lycett (formerly of Minchin- 

 hampton), were duly mentioned, and accounts were given of the 

 A'arious excursions to places of interest, when the geology, natural 

 history, and archaeology were duly investigated. Geology seems to 

 have monopolized the attention of the members at their evening 

 meetings, for the separate papers printed in this part of the Pro- 

 ceedings are entirely devoted to that science. Mr. Handel Cossham 

 discourses on the Cannington Park Limestone, from which he has 

 obtained fossils that confirm its Carboniferous age. Mr. E. Wethered 

 gives an account of the strata exposed in a railway cutting at Morse, 

 near Drybrook, in which he identifies an outlier of Trias, yielding 

 quartzite pebbles like those of Budleigh Salterton. Mr. W. C. Lucy 

 contributes a list of the minerals of Gloucestershire, and of part of 

 the adjacent counties of Somerset and Worcestershire ; and also a 

 list of derived rocks found in the northern drift gravel over the 

 same area. Mr. E. Witchell describes the Pisolite and the basement 

 beds of the Inferior Oolite of the Cotteswolds. He gives an interest- 

 ing account of the "Pea Grit" or Pisolite, and shows by sections 

 some of the changes that took place in the deposits of the Oolitic sea. 



Dr. Wright describes a new species of Star-fish ( Uraster spinigera) 

 from the Forest Marble, near Eoad, Wiltshire ; a new species of 

 Brittle Star (OpMurella nereida) from the Coral Eag of Weymouth, 

 and a new Astacamorphous Crustacean (Erijma Guisei) from the 

 Inferior Oolite of Leckhampton Hill. H. B. W. 



1 In the October number of the Magazine, p. 439, 1. 12, patent ought to hepoient. 



