The Geology of Gloucestershire
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GLOUCESTERSHIRE. [KELLY'S THE GEOLOGY OF GLOUCESTERSHIRE (Revised to :rgos.) NATURAL HISTORY AND SciENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 188o-xgor. Reports of Excursions to (r) Stroud and May Bristol Microscopical Society, Berkeley square, Clifton. Hill, May, 1870; (2) The Cheltenham District, Bristol Naturalists' Society, Berkeley square, Clifton: July, I874; ( 1) Bristol, Aust Cliff and the Mendips, Proceedings. August, r88o; (4) Cheltenham and Strand, June, Cheltenham Natural Science Society. 1897; (5) Tortworth, Avon Gorge and Aust Cliff, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archooological Society, Eastgate, May, zgor; (6) Vale of Evesham and the North Gloucester : Transactions. Cotteswolds, April, 1904, Proceedings, Geologists' Clifton Antiquarian Club : Proceedings. Association of London. Cotteswold Naturalists' Field Club, Eastgate, Gloucester: 1881. Longe, F. D.-Oolitic Polyzoa, Geol. Mag., p. 23. Proceedings. Wethered, E.-Grits andSandstones of Bristol Coal MusEuMs. field, Midland Naturalist, vol. iv., pp. 25, 59· -'Gloucester Municipal Museum, Price Memorial Hall, Muni cipal buildings. 1881. Wright, Dr. T.-Physiography and Geology of the · Cirencester: The Corinium Museum (Antiquities), and the Country round Cheltenham, Midland Naturalist, Museum of the Royal Agricultural College • vol. iv., p. I45· . Bristol Corporation Museum (and Reference Library), Queen's road, Bristol. Smithe, Rev. F.-Liassic Zones and Structure of Churchdown. Hill, Proc. Cotteswold Field Club, vol • XI., p. 247• - PUBLI<)ATIONS OF THE GOVERNMENT GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. Harrison, W. J.-Bibliography of Midland Glaciology, (I) Coloured Maps, on the scale of one inch to a mile : Trans. B'ham Nat. Hist. <f Phil. Soc., vol. ix., . Sheet Ig, Southern part of Bristol Coal-field, &c. ; Sheet 34, p. Il6. Stroud, Cirencester, &c.; Sheet 35, Bristol, Chipping s~d bury, Dnrsley, &c. ; Quarter-•heet 43, N.E., Newent, S. Groom, Prof. T. T.--Structure of the Southern ·Malverns, Hasfield, &c.; Quarter-sheet 43, S. ,V., Western Malverns, Quart. Jou1·n. Geol. Soc., vol. lv., p. r2g, part of Forest of Dean Coal-field; Quarter-shea 43, S.E., Igoo. Callaway, C.-Longmyndian Inlier at Huntley, ·Gloucester, Eastern part of Forest of Dean Coal-field; Sheet Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. !vi, p. su. 44, Cheltenham, Tewkesbury, Moreton-in·the-Marsh, &c. These maps are illustrated by the Horizontal Sections, Igo1. Bate, D.-Bone-cave in Carboniferous Limestone of Nos. 12, 13, I4, 15, 17, 59, zo6, 107, III ; and by the Wye Valley, Geol. Mag. p. 101, Vertical Sections, Nos. 7, u, 15, 46, 47, 48, 49, so, 51 and 57· Igor. Buck man, S. S.-Bajocian, &c., Deposits in tl1e North Cotteswolds, Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. The whole of Gloucestershire is also included in the lvii., p. I26. admirable Index Map, Sheet u, scale, 4 miles to one inch, price 2s. 6d. rgox. MeMurtrie, J.-Geological Features of the Somerset (2) Books or "l"femoirs" :-The Lias, by H. B. Wood and Bristol Coal-field, Trans. Iniit. Mining Eng., JWard, price 7s. 6d. ; The Oolitic Rocks, by H. B. Woodward, vol. xx., p. 306. 2 vols., price ms. and 7s. 6d. ; Bristol Coal-field (and East Somerset) by H. B. Woodward, price rBs.; Parts of Glou Igor. Morgan, C. Ll., and S. H. Reynolds.-Rocks of the -cestershire (and Wiltshire), by P1·~f. A. C. Ramsay, price Tortworth Inlier, Qum·t. J~urn. Geol. Soc., vol. Sd. ; Geology of Cheltenham, &c., by Prof. R. Hull, price lvii., p. ~67. · '2S. 6d, Buckman, S. S., &c.-Peat and Forest-Bed at West Local Agents for the sale of the Survey publications are bury-on-Severn, P1•oc. Cotteswold Nat. F. Club, vol. 'Lavars and Co., Bristol; Norman, Sawyer & Co., Chelten xiv., p. 15 . .ham ; and J. Bellows, Gloucester. Buckman, S. S.-The Cotteswold Hills, Proc. Cot Introduction to Geology -For students and general readers who may require a book in which the terms used in te.-wold Nat. F. Club, vol. xiv., p. 205. geology are simply explained, and the relatiOns of the rocks Richardson, L.-Rhootic Rocks of N.W. Gloucester of Gloucestershire to those of the other counties of England shire, Pr-oc. Cotteswold Nat. F. Club, vol. xiv., pp. described, we may name Harrison's Teztbook of Geolo!f!!, I27, 251, iifth edition, rgo3, published by Blackie & Son, price 3s. 6d. Richardson, L.-Handbook to Geology of Chelten ham, &c., Bvo. Cheltenham. IMPORTANT WouKs oR PAPERS ON LoCAL GEOLOGY. (::3ee list of 750 works in H. B. Woodward's Survey Memoir Short, A. R.-Rhootic Sections in the Bristol District, on the " Geology of the East Somerset and Bristol Coal Quart. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. lx., p. 170. field," I876.) xgos. Vaughan, A -Palooontological Sequence)n the Car 1865. Austin, Fort-Major T.-The Mtllstone Grit, Svo. boniferous Limestone of the Bristol Area, Quart. London and Bristol. Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. !xi., p. I8I. I86g. Thomas, A.-The Forest of Dean, Trans. S. Wales Inst. of Engineers, vol. vi., p. 200. The British Association held its annual meetings at Bristol in the years I836, I875 and 1898; and in 1856 it met at Etheridge, R.-Dolomitic Conglomerate of Bristol, Cheltenham. In the bulky Reports published for each year, Journ. Geol. Soc., vol. xxvi., p. 174. several valuable papers will be found dealing with the Geology of Glouce,tershire ; while the special Handbook Tate, R.-Palooontology of Junction Beds of Lower published in connection with the Bristol Meeting of z8g8, and Middle Lias in Gloucestershire, Journ. Geol. contains a valuable section upon Geology, edited by Prof. Soc., vol. xxvi., p. 394· Lloyd Morgan. x871. Tate, R.-Marine Invertebrate Fauna of the Lias, Geol. Mag., vol. viii., p. 4· 1873· Anstie, John.-Coal-fields of Gloucestershire and THE strata which compose the county of Gloucester have Somersetshire, and their Resources, 8vo. London. so long and so repeatedly been carefully examined by corn• .