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for Eutomostraca, with a rich result as his paper shows. The clays 

 sent to him for the same purpose from Bradford were obtained 

 from the deposit peculiar to that locality, and underlying the 

 Forest Marble. The thanks of the members present were 

 returned to the authors for their contribution to the " Pro- 

 ceedings " of the Club. 



Mr. PuMPHREY followed with a paper on "Landslips and 

 Subsidences." The remarkable landslip at Zug, in Switzerland, 

 visited by him last summer, being first described, he proceeded to 

 touch upon the same natural phenomena in our own locality, 

 special allusion being made to what has been going for so long a 

 period at Hedgemead. A conversation followed in which Messrs. 

 Skrine, Bartrum, Morgan and the Secretary took part ; and 

 well-known instances of local slips on our hills were described, 

 a distinction being drawn between subsidences and landslips. 

 The general opinion as to the cause of the Hedgemead slip 

 seemed to be the comparatively recent addition of new houses on 

 the steep slopes, without the precaution being taken of piercing 

 through the talus and laying the foundations of the houses in 

 the natural ground instead of the subaerial wash of the hill. To 

 this may be added the result of water percolating between the 

 natural slope and the taliis greasing the " slips " as it were 

 and thus aiding the natural effect of gravitation. 



The second afternoon Meeting on December 14th was given up 

 to Mr. Austin J. King, who made a valuable contribution to the 

 ancient history of Bath in " Some Notes on Stalles Church, Bath." 



The Chairman (Mr. Shum) thanked Mr. King for his most 

 interesting Antiquarian paper, especially valuable to Bath people 

 and placed before the Club in an admirable and succinct manner. 

 It was well known how very little information was obtainable 

 respecting that particular portion of the ancient history of the 

 City; but Mr. King having been so favourably situated for research, 

 had made most admirable use of his opportunities of hunting up 

 the Municipal Records, and had from time to time given to the 



