REPORTS OF MEETINGS. 163 



CHEMICAL AND PHYSICAL SECTION. 



ri^HE Section lias held four meetings since the last 

 -L Report, and a number of papers have been read, 

 one of which is printed in the Proceedings. 



The following are the names of gentlemen who have read 

 papers during the Session : Mr. A. Campbell, Mr, G. F. 

 Schacht, Mr. C. E. Crawford, and Mr. D. Rintoul. 



A. RICHAEDSON, Hon. Sec. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



THERE has been one meeting of the Section, at which 

 Mr. A. Wharton Metcalf was elected Secretary. 



The Rev. Morley B. Saunders read a paper on " Mountain 

 Building," which is printed in our Proceedings. 



The President stated that he was engaged on a piece of 

 geological work in the neighbourhood of Tytherington and 

 Grovesend, and briefly alluded to some of the features seen 

 in the Yate and Thornbury railway cutting. A paper 

 on the subject will be found in the pages of the Proceedings ; 

 and it is proposed to make an excursion to the district. 



The President also alluded to the Brislington section on 

 the Great Western Railway, and promised to read a paper 

 on the section during the next Session. 



An excursion of the Section was made, at Whitsuntide 

 (1888), to Frome. On the Saturday the chalk outlier of Cley 

 Hill was visited. On Monday the members examined the 

 Mountain Limestone, and the Rhcetic fissure-infillings of 

 Nunney and Holwell. On Tuesday the railway section near 

 Old Down Inn and the rocks in the neighbourhood of 

 Binegar were visited. The President, the Rev. H. H. 

 Winwood, Mr. Joel Lean, and others drew attention to the 

 salient features of the geology of the district. 



