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its duties. If, from want of talents or of leisure, or from the distance of my residence, 1 should 

 be found inadequate to the satisfactory performance of what is imposed by the office, I shall con- 

 fidently rely upon your indulgence, and upon the assistance of the committee, or shall resign into 

 your hands the trust you have confided in me, with the same cheerfulness and thankfulness with 

 which I, in the first instance, accepted it." 



The accounts of the Society were read, and the committee for the year appointed. (Norfolk 

 CAronic/*?, Nov. 28. 1829.) 



Gloucestershire. 



Natural History Society. — A Society has been established at Gloucester, 

 the enquiries of which are to be dedicated to subjects of natural history. Dr. 

 Barron has accepted the office of president. {Hereford Journal., July 29.) 



Fossil Remains from Foxcote. — In 1827, my employer had a well sunk on 

 one of his farms, for the use of his cattle, upon those beautiful hills near 

 Foxcote. It is 70 ft. in depth, and these stones {fig. 35.) came out of it, save 

 one that was given me by a friend from Newland, and which was taken out of 

 a gravel pit in that parish, near Shipston on Stour, Worcestershire. If you 

 should find them useful, they are much at your service ; and I remain. Sir, 

 yours, &c. — W.B. Rose, Gardener. Foxcote, Sept. 6. 1829. 



The fossils with which we have been favoured by Mr. W. B. Rose, have 

 been submitted to the examination of Mr. J. D. C. Sowerby, who has com- 

 municated the following catalogue : — 



o, Ammonl/es hawskeriensis Young and Bird. 



b, Pholadomya producta Min. Con. 



c, Vhnus ? A cast found also at Pickeridge Hill. 



d, Amphid^sma pholadiformis Phillips, York- 

 shire. PuUastra Murchison, Geol. Trans. 



e, Pi^cten sequivalvis Min. Con. 



f, Terebratula orbicularis (new species). 



g, Terebr&tula ovo'ides? Min.Con. 

 h, Terebratula bidens (new species). 



?, Terebratula m^dia Min. Con. 

 k, Terebratula tetraMra Min. Con. 



The unfigured specimens are fragments of 

 two species of Ammon)/es ; an impression, pro- 

 bably, of Am. planic6sta, apparently from the 

 lias ; a fragment of a species of P^cten ; S^r- 

 pula (imperfect), Z?clemnites, and Pentacrinus ; 

 fragments of Gryph£e\ ? O'strea ? and .ffelem- 

 nites ? 



Without being able to point out the precise locality whence these fossils 

 were collected by our correspondent, we have little hesitation in assigning 

 them to the inferior oolite ; and are probably correct in referring them to the 

 brown, ferruginous, and micaceous sandstone which is situated near the 

 lower part of the series, towards the lias, and in which the large Pecten 

 aequivalvis is the most distinguishing shell. This bed appears to be the same 

 as that described by Messrs. Coneybeare and Phillips, under the term " marly 

 sandstone." Most of the fossils in the foregoing list will be found in that 

 furnished by the authors of the Outlines of the Geology of England and 

 Wales. Fine sections of this portion of the oolitic series occur in the 

 western escarpment of the Coteswold Hills of Gloucestershire, and upon the 



