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Quarry on Sevexhampton Common. Thickness 
ft. ins. 
6. Stonesfield Slate. Limestone, grey and greenish-grey, 
arenaceous. The middle portion of this deposit is a very hard 
blue-hearted rock, slightly oolitic, and yields the " slats.” 
Perisphinctes gracilis (J. Buckman), Nuculana waltoni (M. and 
L.), Placunopsis socialis (M. and L.), Trigonia impressa (J. de C. 
Sow), Pollicipes ooliticus (J. Buckman), Astropeclen cotteswoldicB 
(J. Buckman), and Carpolithus diospyriformis (Sternberg) 4 6 
Fullers’ Earth. Clay, greenish-yellow 
The Director said that he had collected many fossils from this quarry. 
They have been identified and their names are given in the record above. 
It is of interest to note that Ostrea acuminata (J. Sow) occurs in abundance 
above the slate, because this fact points to the hemera gracilis being only an 
episode in the longer time interval of acuminata and requires the deposit of 
gracilis hemera being grouped with the Vesulian. The Director also stated 
that in his opinion there was little doubt that the Stonesfield Slate and 
associated beds at Eyeford, Sevenhampton Common, and Bisley (near Stroud) 
were of the same age as a portion of the deposits proved in the bore at Shipton 
Moyne that he had described as “ Passage Beds.” 1 
From the Common the members walked to the spring near Puckham 
Farm, where they saw the Scissum-Beds — rich in specimens of Rhynchonella 
cynocephala auctt. and Aulacothyris blakei (Walker) — resting on Upper 
Lias clay, from the junction of which issued a perennial supply of beautifully 
clear water. 
The route then followed was the track and quarry road to Whittington, 
an elevated track with the old freestone quarries in the steep hill side on the 
left and a deep valley on the right. In one of the quarries the freestone has 
been mined, and certain of the strata contain rolled pieces of freestone denoting 
almost contemporaneous erosion. 
Tea and election of members as below at the Andoversford Hotel completed 
the day’s proceedings. 
The following Candidates were elected members : — 
Mrs. Winifred S. Jackson, Broughtons, Xewnham, proposed by Sir 
Francis H. Crawley-Boevey, seconded by M. W. Colchester-Wemyss. 
Miss L. E. Auld, B.Sc., 13 Lansdown Road, Gloucester, proposed by 
Roland Austin, seconded by F. H. Bretherton. 
G. H. Simpson-Hayward, Icomb Place, Stow-on-the-Wold, proposed by 
C. Granville Clutterbuck, seconded by Douglas E. Finlay. 
Augustus Turner, Dunkirk Manor House, Amberley, Stroud, proposed 
by E. Northam Witchell, seconded by T. G. Smith. 
Miss Elizabeth Holliday, " Morland,” Leckhampton, Cheltenham, 
proposed by J. W. Gray, seconded by C. I. Gardiner. 
Sir Anselm Guise, Elmore Court, proposed by J. H. Jones, seconded by 
J. W. Haines. 
1 Procs. Colteswold Nat. F.C., vof. xix., pt. 1 (1915), p. 55. 
