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contribution to the Som. Arch. and Nat. Hist. Soc. ; but up to the 
year 1876, he was generally present at their meetings and took part 
in their excursions, ready, whenever called upon, to give them an 
account of their geological surroundings. On one occasion he 
gives a short lecture from Glastonbury Tor; he speaks to them at 
the West Leigh quarries ; he gives an able address on the geology 
of the Shepton Mallet district at their Meeting in 1865, alluding 
to the ‘few yards of earth from Holwell, near the Vallis, contain- 
ing a million specimens of organic remains ;” at their Meeting at 
Frome, 1875, he takes them to the Holwell quarries and points 
out the spot where he discovered the twenty-seven Microlestes 
teeth and whence he had carted to his cellar for the sum of 55s, 
the three tons of greenish clay, from which, with patient industry, 
he had picked out one by one, after three years’ toil, that fine 
collection of fish and reptilian remains now in Case No. 39 of our 
Bath Museum, And finally at Bath, in 1875, he discourses to the 
members assembled in his room at the Institution, on the 
magnificent result of his labours there gathered together in illus- 
tration of the ancient history and the physical conditions of the 
Bath district and the County of Somerset ; in which, he ventured 
to hope, he had been to some extent successful—-a hope, which 
in the opinion of his geological brothers, has been most fully 
realized. One other communication, however, must not be over- 
looked. During one of the Society’s excursions to Bathampton 
he pointed out the spot on the 8. side of the canal, opposite the 
church, where he had recently found a quantity of irony slag or 
cinder mixed up with Samian ware and other Roman remains, 
overlying the “Mammal drift” gravel. He considered this to 
indicate the site of a Roman smithy. 
Elected a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1854, 
he contributed five valuable papers to their journal. The first in 
1860, “On the so-called Wealden beds of Linksfield and the 
Reptiliferous Sandstones of Elgin,” directed attention to the 
similarity of appearance between these Linksfield shales with their 
