KEPOETS OF MEETINGS. 



the Coal Measures by solution. Mr. WoUaston remarked that 

 in the Millstone Grit series he had found laminaB of |-inch thickness 

 showing Oolitic structure ; and he doubted whether in such cases it 

 would be formed by strong currents : he considered such laminae 

 must have been deposited in still waters. Mr. E. Tawney said he 

 followed the author in holding that the lowest shales belonged truly 

 to the Carboniferous and not to the TJ. Devonian, as Mr. Etheridge 

 has suggested {Q. J, G. S., XXIII., p. 692), for he has never been 

 able to find any fossil identical with those of JN". Devon. 



April 1st, 1875. — Mr. E. Tawney read a paper on ''Professor 

 Renevier's Geological Nomenclature," exhibiting that writer's large 

 strati graphical diagram of formations, 



May 6th, 1875. — Annual Meeting. The President and other 

 Officers were re-elected, except the Treasurer, who resigned from 

 pressure of affairs. Mr. W. Derham, of Henleaze Park, was elected 

 Treasurer. Three new Members of Council were elected, viz., 

 Messrs. W, W. Stoddart, S. Derham, and A. E. Hudd, in lieu of 

 those retiriDg by rotation. The Eeport of the Council was read and 

 adopted. The meeting then passed to the consideration of a new 

 code of Rules; the meeting was adjourned, and at this their 

 adoption was completed. 



General Excursion, July 7th, 1875, to Wells and Glastonbury. — 

 A party of seventeen left Bristol by the 8.0 train for Wells. They 

 visited the Cathedral and Palace grounds. Some of the party went 

 to call on the Mayor with regard to the forthcoming excursion of 

 Members of the British Association to Wells duiing the Bristol 

 Meeting. The party then left for Glastonbuiy, ascending the Tor. 

 The geologists were not very successful in finding good exposures 

 of the TJ. Lias beds. 



October 7th, 1875. — Mr. E. Wheeler made an interesting com- 

 munication '* On the Birds of the Bristol District," exhibiting part 

 of his private collection, containing the more interesting species and 

 a good series of nests. The text of the paper appears above. Mr. 

 Charbonnier then exhibited a series of silk-producing Moths, 

 including the following species : Bomlyx Yama-mai^ Fernii, Cynthia^ 



