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Covered up by debris from the ridge above. This small pit was 

 near the top of the Blackdown ridge, above the village of 

 Blagdon, Somersetshire. Owing to its being six miles from a 

 railway those who had been to see it did not hear in time that 

 the sinking was being filled up. It is a cause of regret that the 

 opportunity for making further explorations was thus lost. The 

 bones were a Yestebra of Bos, three molar teeth of Rhinoceros, 

 and distal end of Femur of the same. 



Mr. G. Grenfell exhibited a fine specimen of Ner'eites from the 

 Millstone Grit opposite the Clifton Post Office. Prom this 

 quarry, where they are getting Hoematite Iron-ore, he had further 

 obtained Producta scahricula, Streptorhynchus crenutria and other 

 shells. He presented the Nereites to the Bristol Museum. 



Mr. Stoddart then entertained the Section with an account of 

 " The Geology of Portishead near Bristol." The author stated 

 that this district is extremely complicated on account of faults 

 and irregular grouping from volcanic disturbance. The Devonian 

 beds are extremely interesting as they contain many characteristic 

 remains of fishes. The data of the upheaval that caused these 

 fiiults was supposed to have been at the commencement of the 

 Liassic period, when the Clifton gorge and Cheddar rocks were 

 placed in their present position. The paper will, however, 

 appear in extenso on a future occasion, when describing the 

 Devonian beds of the neighbourhood; and the whole subject 

 will be illustrated by Sections. 



The last evening meeting of the Section was on March 12th. 

 The times and places of the summer walks for the Section were 

 fixed. Mr. E. Tawney then read a paper entitled "Museum 

 Notes — Dundry Gasteropoda." This was followed by another by 

 Mr. A. C. Pass, and the same '' On the use of the Divining Rod 

 near Bristol." Both of these have appeared above. 



The first walk of the Section was on May 23rd. The members 

 took train to Bradford (on A. von) and visited the '' Bradford 

 Clay " Sections. 



In the large quarry on the right bank of the canal the clay is 



