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. The anxiety of the members having been relieved by the 
reappearance of their lost brother, after an inspection of the 
peculiar band of cherty Inferior Oolite on the brow of the hill, 
a rapid descent was made through the main S.W. entrance, the 
road finally gained, and the Sparkford Inn afforded a welcome 
retreat after the long walk and the various accidents of the day. 
Time did not admit of a visit to the section at Queen’s Camel, 
and only one of those present remembered how, in 1868, the late 
Charles Moore conducted the Club to his typical section of 
Keuper, Rheetic and Lower Lias, so admirably exposed in those 
days bed by bed, but now much grown over and obliterated. 
Eheu! fugaces labuntur anni ! 
Beckington and the ‘* Devil’s Bed and Bolster.”—After a week of 
wind and rain, in the midst, too, of a depressed barometer (the 
mercury standing at 29in.), the weather of Tuesday, October 23rd, 
luckily proved favourable for the second bye-excursion of the 
Club. Twenty out of the twenty-four members who had sent in 
their names to the Secretary mustered at the G.W.R. station for 
Frome, at 10.28 a.m. As the train wound leisurely through the 
Warleigh Valley, ample opportunity was afforded for the eye to 
rest on the lovely woodlands, clothed in rich browns and golden 
yellows and all the intermediate tints from light to dark green, 
Various questions were asked en route as to the chief object of the 
day’s excursion—the ‘ Devil’s Bed and Bolster”—the general 
idea being that some extraordinary geological formation, in some 
way connected with the Plutonic regions, was to be seen. This 
pleasing uncertainty helped to keep up the spirits of the party as 
they turned out from the train at Frome, and wended their way 
by Wallbridge, Stiles Hill, Fromefield, and along the main road 
to Beckington, where the first halt occurred. The Nev. J. B. 
Medley, Rector of Lullington, who had kindly undertaken the 
description of the Church, met them here, and at once proceeded 
to read some notes prepared for the meeting of the Wilts 
Archeological Society in August of the present year. Com- 
