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The infirmities of increasing years caused the resignation of 
one Member, the Rev. R. Atkinson-Grimshaw, M.A., a Member 
since 1896. 
The number on the Club’s list of Members has, notwithstanding 
these losses, been increased by three, seven new Members having 
been elected during the year. The maximum number of 
Members allowed by the Rules, 100, has never yet been 
absolutely reached. The present names on the roll amount 
to 97. 
All the excursions arranged for the year took place and were 
well attended. Two pedestrian excursions to 8. Catherine’s 
Court and Church, and the sepulchral tumulus at Stony Littleton, 
near Wellow, also were effected, although the heat of the day 
necessitated an alteration in the case of the first, to horse 
conveyance. 
Portishead, April 27, 1897. The Members of the Field Club 
commenced the Proceedings of the year by making an interesting 
excursion to view the geological sections exposed on the seashore 
at Portishead, under the direction of the Vice-President of the 
Club, the Rev. H. H. Winwood, F.G.S, The Members, who 
numbered 14, first walked to the Battery Point, where the 
Carboniferous Limestone and its shales are well exposed on the 
cliffs. Here the Rev. H. H. Winwood explained to the Members, 
as far as the complex geology of the greatly faulted and highly 
inclined strata allows of a logical explanation, the various rocks 
exposed in the Portishead promontory. The Tertiary New Red 
Sandstone and the Dolomitic Conglomerate occur in horizontal 
strata lying on the older rocks of the Coal series, Pennant Sand- 
stone, Carboniferous Limestone and its shales, and also on the 
Old Red Sandstone and its conglomerates, all highly inclined and 
dipping to various points of the compass. There isa point above 
the Royal Pier Hotel in the Carboniferous Limestone where 
there is a “quaquaversal” dip. Professor C. Lloyd Morgan, 
F.G.S., who has published such a full and exhaustive account of 

