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L. Blathwayt, who gave the Members his Notes on certain rare 
beetles found in a wasps’ nest, which are printed at page 136 
with an illustration. 
A fourth Afternoon Meeting was held on January 16th, 1895, 
to receive two very instructive papers (printed at pages 141 and 
147) from the Vice-President, the Rev. H. H. Winwood ; 23 
Members attended the meeting, over which Canon Ellacombe, 
the President of the Club, presided, and seven visitors, including 
Mr. W. Somerville, jun., of Bitton, Mr. Norton Tompkins, Mr. 
Hammond and others. 
A Deep Boring at Bitton.—The first Paper related to a deep 
‘boring at Bitton. During the past year Mr. Winwood had paid 
several visits to the well-boring at the Paper Mills at Bitton, and 
through the courtesy of Messrs. Somerville was enabled to lay the 
details and specimens of the cores before the members. The 
succession and depth of the strata were described and a section 
shown. Several points of much interest were dwelt on, especially 
the fact that the Triassic Beds were found to rest immediately on 
_ the Pennant Rock which was struck at a depth of 412 feet. The 
whole of the upper coal measures were thus proved to be wanting; 
estimated to reach in this district a thickness of at least 1,000ft. 
The boring was abandoned at this depth, very wisely, as the 
: water from the Pennant Sandstone would most probably be 
impregnated with iron. A plentiful supply of water was found in 
the harder beds of the new Red Marl, but not so much as might 
have been expected, the quantity being 5,760 gallons an hour. 
Mr. MeMurtrie, who opened a short discussion upon the Paper, 
- remarked that the same strata as Mr. Winwood had described 
were met with in the neighbourhood of Radstock. In the 
Radstock District the water was invariably found immediately 
above the conglomerate, and they generally had from 600 to 800 
gallons a minute. The Chairman mentioned that in the Bitton 
District the geology was so broken up that they could never rely 
on finding water. As an illustration he explained that once Mr. 
