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the proposed locality to another season. Thus our summer 
season terminated with the Meeting in July. But the active 
energies of the Club did not hybernate, as has been the custom 
in former years, after the termination of the Field Meetings; 
these were kept alive by the adoption, now for the first time 
put in practice, of Winter Meetings, for the reading and 
discussion of papers, in accordance with the resolution come 
to at the Annual Meeting of the Club in the previous April. 
THE FIRST EVENING MEETING 
Was held at the Lecture Theatre of the School of Science 
and Art, at Gloucester, on Tuesday, the 14th of: November, 
at 4 p.m., when a paper was read by E. Weruerep, Esq., 
F.G.S., on the Carboniferous Flora of the Bristol Coal-field. 
This paper was illustrated by some splendidly drawn diagrams, 
with lists of fossils. After a lengthened introduction Mr. 
Wernerep referred to descriptions of the Bristol Coal-field 
by different Geologists, with a view to showing that, in 
the absence of fossil fauna, the Flora had not been availed 
of as it might have been for the classification of strata 
whereas he held that coal seams—or, where they lie close 
together, groups of coal seams—may be determined by their 
associated vegetable forms with the same certainty as strata 
generally are differentiated by their contained animal remains. 
Owing to the little value hitherto attached to fossil plants, as 
a means of classification, the subject is in a condition far from 
satisfactory; and until this is rectified the use to which it may 
be applied must necessarily be very limited. It was therefore 
with a hope to contribute something towards supplying this 
deficiency that the Lecturer had directed his attention to the 
classification of the beds of the Bristol Coal-field on the basis 
of their contained floral organisms. 
