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worms and slugs that crawled forth at night, even in his small 
garden, where 25,000 had to his knowledge been destroyed there 
in one year. He also alluded to a fall of small fish over the N. 
Parade, between 1837 and 1843. A drawing in sepia from the 
ink bag of the Upper Lias cuttle fish, done by a lady passing 
through Bath, was exhibited. The hooklets with which the 
tentacles of the latter were armed had been found inside the 
ribs of the Saurians, so that most probably these cuttle fish 
formed a portion of their food. 
One of his most useful papers contributed to the proceedings of 
our Field Club will be found in Vol. ii, p. 37 (1869). It contains 
an account of the Mammalia and other remains from the “ drift 
deposits” in the Bath basin during the Post-pliocene, the Pre- 
historic and the Historic periods. The contents of a Roman 
coffin found near Sydney Buildings, about 12 feet beneath the 
surface, served him as a theme for some remarks on his favourite 
subject. The pounded crystalline Carbonate of Lime with which 
the coffin was filled gave him a text. Where did this come from ? 
It must have been purposely brought from some mineral district. 
Where then more likely than from his dear old Mendip Hills, the 
scene of the Roman lead workings. There was a crack in the 
coffin lid ; through this had filtered in (evidently when near the 
surface and before the accumulation of the 12 feet of superincum- 
bent soil, and therfore near the time of the burial) a perfect 
geological collection of small Brachiopoda, corals, and other fossils 
from the Inferior Oolite, also many recent land shells ; lists of 
which and the contents of the coffin are now seen in the gallery 
of the Museum. Subsequently to the Roman occupation he 
considered that the city had been deserted for a long time and 
converted into a swamp. Evidence of this he adduced in the 
alluvial marl with vegetable matter (in some cases almost converted 
into peat) lying on the Roman foundations at the excavations on 
the site of the White Hart Hotel. The uprush of the hot waters 
too through their upper beds brings him enough material for a 
