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MR. L. RICHARDSON ON THE 



[vol. lxxiv, 



Stone and its subjacent sands were a thick development of only a 

 small middle portion of the Gloucestershire Cephalopoda-Bed was 

 •something quite unexpected. His dates — the Building-Stone as of 

 moorei hemera and the subjacent sands as of dumortierice hemera 

 — have been fully accepted. 



As regards the rest of the district, in the seventies a considerable 

 collection of fossils from the Crewkerne district was made by 



-Fig. 1. — Map of the Crewkerne district, showing the localities 

 where exposures of Inferior Oolite are observed. 



■James Buckman and especially by his then pupil, Mr. Darell 

 Stephens (now Mr. D. S. Darell), F.G.S. — the railway-sidings at 

 Crewkerne Station, which were then under construction, yielding as 

 quarrying proceeded a large number of specimens. Brachiopods so 

 obtained, together with those procured by J. F. Walker, who had 

 -also collected in this district, 1 were sent to Davidson, and several 



1 Geol. Ma£. dec. 2, vol. v (1878) p. 555. 



