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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1916 
It will thus be seen that the discovery of Ophiolepis at 
Garden Clift was due to students of the Gloucester School of 
Science, and not to (at the time) members of the Cotteswold 
Club, for neither Mr Sawyer nor myself were then members, 
but, of course, we were deeply grateful to both Mr Lucy and 
Dr. Wright for their kind and generous assistance in helping 
us to appreciate the importance of our find. 
References to Ophiolepis Damesii have been made from 
time to time in the Proceedings, ‘ but since our visit to Westbury 
last September I recollected that an account of the finding 
of the fossil was given in 1875, only a year after the discovery, 
in a local publication called The Amateur. Copies of this 
magazine have become scarce, and I have therefore extracted 
the reports from the volume in the British Museum in order 
that they may be preserved in our Proceedings, for they possess 
value as the earliest record of the find at Garden Cliff. 
APPENDIX. 
I. 
[Extracted from The Amateur, vol. i., 1875, No. 2, p. 20.3 
GLOUCESTER SCHOOL OF SCIENCE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
This young society of Philosophers, or “ Lovers of Wisdom,” originally 
formed by students of the Science Classes, but since ioined by several gentle- 
men of scientific tastes, has, under the able guidance of Mr G. Embrey, alreadj’ 
done such good work that we think some reference to its proceedings may 
interest our readers. 
The third meeting of the session was held at the School of Science on 
Tuesday, the nth of May, when Mr G. Embrey delivered a lecture on the 
” Giant’s Causeway.” The proceedings were opened by the Secretary, 
Mr Bird, reading the Minutes of the previous meeting, at which a lecture on 
” Flame ” was read by Mr A. Dutton. Mr Embrey then referred to a recent 
visit of the geological Members of the Society to the Garden Cliff, Westbury- 
on-Severn, where many interesting fossils were found, the most remarkable 
being a Star-fish, or Brittle-star, found by Mr Sawyer in the Avicula conioria 
bed, and which was supposed to be the first of the kind ever found in England. 
The Garden Cliff is an excellent example of the Rhsetic series (so called 
from its being best represented in the Rhaetian .Vlps , which marks a transi- 
tion period between the Trias and the Lias. 
The Avicula contorta bed is one of the beds of the Rhsetic series, and 
has been most fully investigated, and, in faet, was named by Dr. Wright, of 
Cheltenham. To this gentleman the Brittle-star found was shovm, and 
he expres.sed great pleasure at the discovery as a similar star had quite re- 
cently been found in the German beds, and was supposed to establish a 
difference between them and the English series, whereas this Westbury star 
now re-establishes their identity. 
I Vol. vi., p. 371 vol. X., p. 12 ; vol. xiv., p. 162. 
