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The specimens I have brought do not comprise all I have taken 

 in this neighbourhood, but only those that I feel pretty sure I 

 have named correctly, I propose to leave the list in manuscript, 

 and place the insects in the Local Insect Cabinet, and hope by 

 next winter to have added largely to their number ; and should 

 any entomologist doubt the correctness of the list, the insects, 

 like Jack Cade's father's bricks, will there be alive to testify it, 

 or in case of mistake correct it. 



Eecent "Finds" in the Victoria Gravel Pit. By Rev. H. H. 

 WlNWOOD, F.G.S. 



(Read Februanj 15th, 1888.) ^■■. 



In the "List of Fossil Mammalia found near Bath," Vol. vi., 

 No. 1, p. 95, of our ''Proceedings," " Morefield Cutting, Somerset 

 and Dorset Eailway," occurs as one of those places where 

 Mammalian remains had been found. Some members of the 

 Club may recollect visiting a section, whilst that line was in 

 process of construction, made through gravel beds resting on 

 Blue Lias clay, immediately E. of the third bridge after crossing 

 the main road, this was called at the time "Morefield Cutting," 

 Since then the gravel banks on each side have been concealed by 

 a clothing of vegetation, and their presence forgotten save by a few 

 especially interested in the subject. As good gravel becomes every 

 year more scarce and valuable in our neighbourhood, the property 

 in which these beds occur having been purchased by a gentleman 

 who had a keen eye to their commercial value, excavations have 

 of late years been made to the S.W. of the line, and a fine 

 exposure of gravel was the result, and the pit was given the 

 name of " Victoria Gravel Pit." These few preliminary explana- 

 tions are deemed necessary, as confusion often arises from one and 

 the same place having two names. As in addition to the " finds " 



