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Cardiff or elsewhere. Leaving Bath by the 10.18 train, and not 

 finding much to interest them during the earlier portion of the 

 morning, in spite of the well known custom of the Club to avoid 

 politics, the burning question of the day "Home Rule " unavoid 

 ably cropped up, and a surprising unanimity prevailed with the 

 representatives of both sides of political thought in the satisfac- 

 tion felt by the news of the Government defeat by a majority of 

 30. At the Patchway station, however, interest was concentrated 

 upon the great works in progress there in connection with the 

 Severn Tunnel ; the deep cuttings at the sides made for the 

 double line of rail revealing fine sections of Lower Lias and 

 Keuper Marls. Just beyond the station, and before approaching 

 the entrance to the new Patchway tunnel, a thin section of the 

 Rhsetic Bone Bed has been exposed lying on the Light Green 

 Marls. And the " tips " from the blastings in the tunnel show 

 many interesting sjiecimens of Millstone grit (containing curious 

 spherical concretions similar to those found in the Lias near 

 Bitton whilst making the line there, but in this case siliceous) of 

 Limestone and a coarse and fine Conglomerate. Though goods 

 trains have passed through the Severn Tunnel from the other 

 side the passenger trafiic is not yet in working order. Passengers, 

 who are sadly inconvenienced by the present break at New 

 Passage, anxiously look forward to the completion of this great 

 undertaking which has already cost about two millions of money. 

 Arriving at Cardiff about 1.30 the members were met by Dr. 

 Vachell, President of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society, and Mr. 

 Gavey, the Secretary, and at once conducted to the Angel Hotel, 

 whence, after lunch generously provided and most thoroughly 

 appreciated and an ascent to the roof to see the fine view thence 

 of the town and neighbourhood, they went to the Museum and 

 Free Library close at hand. The principal object being to see 

 the Rhoetic and other fossils from the neighbourhood, time did 

 not admit of more than a cursory glance at the rest of its 

 contents. At half-past three a start was made for Llandaff, not 



