BEPORTS OP MEETINGS. 501 



QEOLOaiCAL SECTION. 



FEBHrARY 10th, 1875.— The Annual Meeting of the Section ; 

 the President and Secretary were re-elected. Mr. E. Tawney 

 proposed that instead of giving a guinea to the Parent Library, 

 some geological work should be purchased by the Section in future 

 and presented. This was the only evening Meeting of the Section, 

 such geological papers as were produced by members having been 

 taken to the General Meetings. 



May 18th, 1875. — The first excursion of the Section was on 

 Whit-Tuesday. As usual, the whole of the day was devoted to 

 this purpose, and the goal was the neighbourhood of Ilminster. 

 The party, consisting of nineteen, left by the 8.10 train, the 

 manager of the Bristol and Exeter Railway having courteously 

 placed a broad-guage saloon carriage at their disposal. On arriving 

 at Ilminster, vehicles were in attendance in order to take them 

 over the ground more rapidly. The first sections visited were those 

 of Heme Hill, where the Upper and Middle Lias is well seen ; 

 driving thence through the villages of Donyatt and Seamills they 

 reached the Moolham Quarries, where a further search for fossils 

 was made. Erom here the road was taken through Kingstone to 

 Shepton Beauchamp and through a charming country overlooking 

 Seavington, rich in orchards and picturesque lanes. Thence through 

 the village of Barrington, with its interesting church, to Barrington 

 Hill, which was ascended on foot ; after the quarries there had 

 been well explored, the carriages were regained, and return was 



