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and localities mentioned in the appended list, the dates of the various 

 deposits being stated in hemeral terms : — 



spinati, Aldertou Hill, Gloucestershire ; margaritati, Lightpill clay-pit, 

 Stroud; Capricorn as, Robins' Wood Hill, near Gloucester, Pilt'ord (or Pilley) 

 clay-pit, Cheltenham ; striati, Battledown clay-pit (Messrs. Webb Eros.), 

 Cheltenham, & railway-cutting, ' Dixton West,' Gotherington, near Cheltenham 

 (very slender and erect form) ; Valdani (about), Leckhampton, Cheltenham 

 (H. B. Holl Colin., Nat. Hist. Mus.) 1 ; Valdani, Leckhampton Station clay-pit, 

 Cheltenham, 2 railway-cuttings near Didbrook & Hailes (near Cheltenham) ; 

 Jamesoni, Tyning's Quarry, Radstock, armati- Jamesoni? railway-cutting, 

 Toddington (near Cheltenham), armati (& Jamesoni?), 4 railway-cutting, Aston 

 Magna, near Moreton-in-the-Marsh (Slatter Colin., Nat. Hist. Mus.; and 

 specimens collected by G. E. Gavey and deposited in the Sedgwick Museum, 

 Cambridge) ; Jamesoni (probably), Bishop's-Cleeve Station, near Cheltenham ; 

 armati, Aston Magna clay-pit, Folly-Lane clay-pit, Cheltenham, approach to 

 Hunting-Butts tunnel (southern end), near Cheltenham (PI. XLV, fig. 18), 

 railway-cutting under St. George's Road, Cheltenham; oxynoti-armatL railway- 

 cutting near Stanton-Fields Farm, Stanton (Glos.), Gasworks, Gloucester 5 ; 

 stettaris (or oxynoti-armati ?), 6 Bredou [railway-cutting ?], Worcestershire 

 (Strickland Colin., Sedgwick Museum, Cambridge); Turneri, Honeybourne 

 clay-pit, near Evesham (very slender, erect variety: Slatter Colin., Nat. Hist. 

 Mus.) ; Birchi, well-excavation, Down Hatherley, near Cheltenham ; [Birchi], 

 Shekel's brickyard, Pebvvorth, near Honeybourne/" (R. F. Tomes Colin., Nat. 



'■> 2 The clay-pits where Holl collected his specimens were no doubt those to 

 which Ralph Tate referred as the ' Leckhampton Road clay-pits, Cheltenham.' 

 Tate published his paper ' On the Palaeontology of the Junction-Beds of the 

 Lower & Middle Lias in Gloucestershire ' in the Quarterly Journal of the Geolo- 

 gical Society for 1870, and wrote : — ' At Cheltenham the zone of Ammonites 

 Jamesoni is exposed in the clay-pits by the Leckhampton Road . . . ' (op. cit. 

 p. 396). Mr. J. W. Gray, F.G.S., tells me that between 1866 and 1876 the 

 principal clay-pits near the Leckhampton Road were situated in the immediate 

 neighbourhood of the present Leckhampton Station. There were two pits here 

 adjoining : the one nearest the Leckhampton Road being called ' Winning's 

 pit,' and the other ' Thackwell's.' The latter was by far the more important of 

 the two, and is the one to which I have referred in this paper as the ' Leck- 

 hampton-Station clay-pit.' When the Great Western Railway was constructed 

 advantage was taken of the position of the pits, and the line of railway was taken 

 through them. The present pit is in the Faldatii-beds, but some of the fossils 

 collected by Mr. Gray corroborate Tate's statement that deposits higher than 

 his Jamcsoni-zone, namely the Henleyi-(pv striatum-) beds, were exposed. In the 

 clays of Thackwell's Pit Mr. Gray noticed the skeleton of a fine Ichthyosaurus. 



3 The greater bulk of the clay exposed in this cutting was of armati hemera, 

 but above came a thin zone, crowded with species of Zeilleria, Ehynchonella, 

 and gasteropods, which is most probably of. Jamesoni date. 



4 Gavey recorded in his list of fossils from here, definitely, only Ammonites 

 armatus ; but several authors have described fossils from the same locality as 

 coming from the Jameson /-beds. The clay-banks of the cutting are now covered 

 with grass, but it seems to have been in a deposit similar to that exposed at 

 Toddington. 



3 The fossils from the gas-works at Gloucester were obtained from clay 

 (containing ammonites indicative of a deposit made during o.rynoti, raricosta/i, 

 and armati hem eras) dug out to allow for the laying of the foundations of a 

 gas-holder. 



u The clay seen in the side of the cutting by the goods-siding is of stettaris 

 hemera ; but Strickland found ammonites indicative of later hemeras, farther up 

 the line to the north, in the direction of Eckington. 



7 Mr. E. Talbot Paris, who visited the locality at my request, found the pit 

 quite overgrown. 



