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Westhurj', at Uphill, near "Weston-super-Mare, and others, affords valuable 

 materials towards the elucidation of the beds intermediate the Planorbis 

 beds of the Lower Lias, and the red marls of the Keuper, wherein the 

 persistence of the Pecten beds, the Bone-bed and its remarkable organ- 

 isms, with the accompanying Black Shales, will be remarked as indicating 

 a geological series as complete in itself as it is in many respects divergent 

 from the beds above and below. Mr. Charles Moore identifies this series 

 of beds with the so-called Rha;tic beds of Glimbel, and then assigns to them 

 a separate and distinct value in the geological scale ; while, on the other 

 hand, our able colleague, Dr. Wright, is at present disposed to regard 

 them as a portion of the Keuper series, of which they constitute, in his 

 opinion, the uppermost member. 



From Penarth the party proceeded to Llandaff, where the renovated 

 glories of the fine old Cathedral elicited warm expressions of admiration at 

 the excellent taste displayed in the restoration of the lately ruinous struc- 

 ture. So successfully indeed has the modern architect supplemented the 

 plans of the original designers, that it is difficult to say where the older 

 portion of the work terminates, and that of the restorer has begun. 



After dinner, which took place at the Angel, Mr Jones's admirable paper 

 on the Lias Gryphites was read, and an unanimous vote of thanks was 

 accorded to the author for this very valuable contribution to the published 

 works of the Club. 



Wednesday and Thursday, 18th and 19th of Jiine. The Club met at 

 Weston-super-Mare, in Somersetshire, in pursuance of a plan then for the 

 first time acted upon, of appointing that one of the meetings of the Club 

 should be held outside the boundaries of the county, a plan which I strongly 

 recommend should be made one of annual observance for the future. Such a 

 divergence from the beaten path of routine which has hitherto confined the 

 Club within its own frontiers, is calculated to act most beneficially, by 

 opening out to us fresh fields for observation and research, thereby expand- 

 ing our views and enabhng us to institute comparisons between similar 

 scientific facts as developed in our own county and elsewhere, while we are 

 at the same time brought into contact with individual observers of congenial 

 tastes and pursuits, and with Societies of Naturalists like our own, with 

 whom we are thus enabled to make acquaintance, while at the same time 

 exchanging notes and observations to the manifest advantage of all parties. 



On Wednesday, 18th of June, a considerable number of the leading mem- 

 bers of the Woolhope, Malvern, Bath, Bristol, and Somersetshire Natural 

 History Societies, met us at Weston-super-Mare. 



The principal object of this day's excursion was directed to the examination 

 of the celebrated bone-cavern, at Banwell, and of the remarkable collection 



