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vines that used to be cultivated in this country were a hardier 
kind than those known at present, and that they grew more like 
currant bushes. His opinion was that the cultivation of vines in 
England had died out more on account of the greater facilities 
for obtaining cheap foreign wines than for any change in the 
seasons experienced in this country. 
The third afternoon meeting (Heb. 13th), was devoted to 
Geology. The SECRETAKY gave an account of the results of some 
of his late Autumn rambles in the neishbourhood, under the 
title of a “ Rhetic Section at Luckington, and additional Notes 
on the Vobster Limestone.” The first portion of his remarks 
had reference to the discovery of the further extension, south- 
wards towards the Mendips, of the Rhzetic formation lying on the 
denuded edges of the Carboniferous Limestone, a fine example of 
unconformity for which this district is so remarkable. The 
second had reference to a former communication made to the 
Club in 1882 respecting the inversion of the Mountain Limestone 
at Vobster, and the finding of the Millstone Grit there in situ. 
Since then the section had been further exposed, and more beds 
of Grit opened out, and through the kindness of Mr. Batey a 
plan of these extended excavations has been made and placed 
at the disposal of the Club. (Vide Vol. vii., No. 1, p. 45). 
Mr. McMurtrie followed with a most interesting and carefully 
prepared paper, in which comparisons were drawn between the 
Coal Field of Somerset and the Coal Measures of Belgium and 
the N. of France. During the visit of the British Association 
to Bath in 1888, Dr. Hovelacque, one of the Foreign Geologists, 
had accompanied him in several walks around Radstock, and had 
recently sent him some valuable notes upon which he had 
founded his present paper. Illustrated by Mr. McMurtrie’s 
usual admirable sections it was a very important contribution to 
Geology, showing how the disturbances of the Strata for which 
our district was so noted were not only equalled, but even 
surpassed, by the dislocations, over-thrusts and inversions, with 
