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The excursion took place on Saturday, July Oth, and the 

 President, Mr. Barrington Ward, kindly drew up a brief 

 notice of it : — ' The members of the Society, seventy in num- 

 ber, had their annual pic-nic to-day. They left Clifton 

 College shortly before noon, in several Drags and Omnibuses, 

 and drove to the beautiful locality which had been selected 

 for the purpose — viz., Brockley Combe. Unfortunately the 

 day proved exceedingly wet, yet not sufficiently so as to damp 

 the ardoui- of the party, all of whom thoroughly enjoyed 

 themselves. A farmer (Mr. Thatcher of Downside House), 

 kindly lent a large barn, which, by the efforts of the stewards 

 and others, was speedily converted into an impromptu dining- 

 room. Here the Society remained about two hours, and 

 enjoyed the excellent dinner, which the members had jointly 

 contributed. Some songs followed, and as the rain began 

 to clear away, the party dispersed to view as far as possible 

 the neighbourhood. All reassembled about six o'clock, and 

 the operation of ' packing up ' was soon accomplished. 

 Then the rain began to fall once more, and poured down 

 steadily all the way homewards. Clifton was reached shortly 

 before 8 p.m. Nearly everyone had a good wetting, yet no 

 serious results followed. Alas ! the day we chose for our 

 excursion was the only wet one in the whole term.' Ahsit 

 omen ! 



MEETING, July 14, 1870. 



This was the fourth and last Ordinary meeting of the Term. 

 The Eev. J. Greene, Treasurer, in the Chau-. 



The minutes of the last meeting having been read and 

 approved, H. Proctor read an interesting Paper — unfortu- 

 nately lost — upon the ' Oak,' which was received with much 

 applause. On the motion of the President, Mr. Barrington 

 Ward, a vote of thanks was unanimously passed to H. 

 Proctor for his paper ; and as he was shortly to leave the 

 College for Oxford, the best wishes of the Society were ex- 

 pressed for his success there. 



A. Cruttwell then read a Paper on the ' Outlines of Geo- 

 logy.' At the conclusion of this paper, the Society proceeded 



