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before the Members of this Club (but few of whom now remain 
amongst us) some details respecting a section opened up on the 
Midland Railway near Weston Station. Ten years previously, 
(1861) Mr. Charles Moore had briefly alluded to this section, then 
just being exposed, in a note to his paper on “ Abnormal Secondary 
Deposits” (Q.J.G.S. Vol. XXIII. p. 495). Adopting his name for 
the excavation the title. of my paper was “ Notes on a Rhetic 
Section at Newbridge Hill” and therein a description of the 
beds’ below the Lower Lias was given. The White Lias beds 
were then, and are still well seen on the N. side of the line, and 
show the best exposure of those debatable beds in this part of 
Somerset. Since then the Bath Brewery Company, a large and 
important commercial undertaking, have been excavating for 
the foundations of their new establishment to the S. of the line 
and between it and the river on a site given on the Tithe map 
as “ Boyce hill,” hence the name adopted for these remarks. 
I need hardly remind the Members of a Club, who once had 
the honour of having enrolled amongst its list the name of 
Charles Moore, that the term “ White Lias” is used in the sense in 
which he applied it, and includes only those cream coloured lime- 
stones with conchoidal fracture forming the top of the Rhetic 
series, and so different in lithological character and fossil contents 
from the Lower Lias beds immediately above them. 
Early in the year 1896 my attention was called by the Rev. E. 
W. Leir to a boring then proceeding in the W. corner of the 
section described in my former paper (1871). By the kindness 
of the Directors of the Brewery (and here I wish especially to 
mention the name of Mr. Ayton who has placed every information 
at my disposal) leave was given me to watch the boring and to 
take notes of the character of the beds passed through. The 
specimens of boring were preserved in two long boxes duly 
labelled, and the following are the notes taken at the time. 
