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position so far as his experience of the Stroud area was concerned, 

 and had been much struck with the poverty of the main mass of the 

 Lower Limestone, except in small Gasteropoda.. 



Rev. P. B. Brodie spoke of the bone bed at the base of the 

 Cephalopoda bed at Crickley, near Cheltenham ; and drew attention 

 to the occurrence of " bone beds " at the junction of one formation 

 with another. 



Mr. Walford remarked that Mr. Lucy speaks of the diminution 

 of the pisolites vertically at Birdlip. He mentioned the fact of a 

 ferruginous limestone at Bourton-on-the- Water resting on some 

 sands above the Upper Lias. He objected to the term Lower Lime- 

 stone. 



The President, whilst expressing regret at the cause of the 

 Author's absence, observed that it was only fair to Dr. Wright to 

 remark that some of the confusion with respect to the confounding 

 of the Pea Grit with the lower beds had arisen since his time. The 

 several divisions of the Inferior Oolite had been named after what 

 were supposed to be their principal members. 



