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joints. The Lima series commences about the horizon of the band 

 numbered 38 as large Lima gigantea and Uermanni are found 

 projecting on the under side of the bed, and the stone begins to 

 assume a more bluish colour, both externally and internally, than 

 the beds beneath. 



At the S.E. end of the cutting, where the blue beds of the A m. 

 BucMandi series are brought down by a fault, the characteristic 

 fossils occur ; but it may be as well here to record the asso- 

 ciation of the Ammonites angulatus with these clays, an Ammonite 

 which is supposed to indicate a series of beds of a lower horizon. 



No apology need be made to the Members of the Bath Field 

 Club for bringing these notes before them, when the veteran fathers 

 of the noble science of Geology, Professor Sedgwick and Sir Charles 

 Lyell, have deemed this section worthy of a visit ; and when the 

 great importance of these passage beds is considered, linking as 

 they do the deposits of this portion of England with the strata 

 which range from Norway to the South of Europe, where they 

 reach their maximum development. 



Remarks on the Census of Somersetshire, 1861. By H. J. Hunter, 

 M.D. Read February 15th, 1871. 



In anticipation of the coming census of 1871, the group of 

 facts derived from the census of 1861, which I am about to relate, 

 may be found interesting. 



The population of the county of Somerset was in 1851, 

 443,916, and in 1861, 444,873, thus showing a growth of 957 

 persons in 1 years. 



The rate of increase is, when compared with that of all England, 

 very much like a stand still, and when further examined it 

 proves to be, so far as population is an index of prosperity and 

 power, a retrogression, for the 957 of increase is but the balance 

 of an increase of 2322 females against a positive decrease of 1365 

 among the males. The increase throughout England was in the 

 decennium 1851-61, no less than 12 per cent., and in the county 



