IXX PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SOCIEXr. [May 1 898, 



in the so-called ' Plastic Clay ' of the cliffs at Bournemouth — 

 a locality since famed for the many plant-remains obtained and 

 described by Mr. Starkie Gardner. 



'In 1844 Mr. Brodie was associated with Prof. Buckman in 

 a paper on the Stonesfield Slate of the Cotteswold Hills, and, in 

 addition to many stratigraphical details, the authors recorded from 

 the deposit various insects, plant-remains, and other fossils. The 

 researches thus carried on by Mr. Brodie opened up quite a new 

 line of study — that of Possil Insects. In 1845, assisted by 

 Prof. J. 0. Westwood, he embodied his results in a work en- 

 titled " A History of the Fossil Insects in the Secondary E-ocks of 

 England." This included a particular account of the strata in which 

 the remains were found ; and the work was appropriately dedicated 

 to his old master, Sedgwick. The volume was the first ever 

 published on the special subject of Possil Insects. Later on, 

 Mr. Brodie communicated to the Geological Society of London 

 important papers on the Inferior Oolite of Cheltenham, and on 

 the Purbeck Beds of Swindon. 



'Although not one of the. original members of the Cotteswold 

 Naturalists' Pield Club, which was founded in 1846, Mr. Brodie 

 soon joined its ranks. In 1850 he read before the Club a sketch 

 of the geology of Grantham, and in 1853 he communicated remarks 

 on the Lias of Fretherne and Purton, and on certain Pleistocene 

 deposits in the Yale of Gloucester. It had been his intention to 

 have investigated the Pleistocene formation generally in Gloucester- 

 shire, but the duties of his calling led him away this same year 

 (1853) to the vicarage of Howington, in Warwickshire. It was 

 with great regret that he left so picturesque and instructive a region 

 as that which was embraced by the proceedings of the Cotteswold 

 Club, and his sorrow was iu creased by the loss of their pleasant 

 meetings, and the parting with many friends, whose companionship 

 had added a charm and a- zest to his studies. (Proc. Cotteswold 

 Nat. Field Club, vol. i. p. 246.) 



' Rowington village, which now became the scene of Mr, Brodie's 

 labours, is situated on the Keuper marls and sandstones, which are 

 covered here and there by various drift-deposits. Fossils were no 

 longer to be so readily obtained. Nevertheless, the Lower Lias was 

 within reach at Wilmcote, some 6 or 7 miles to the south, and 

 an outlier of the same formation occurs near Knowle, about 6 miles 

 north of Bowington. Mr, Brodie continued to devote his atten- 

 tion very much to the same lines of research, extending them 



