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some years ago, and stated that he had endeavoured without 

 success to make out the frescoes on the east wall of the chapel. 



The third afternoon meeting of the session was held on 

 Wednesday, Feb. 4th, the Vice-President (the Eev. Preb. Scarth) 

 in the chair. In the absence through illness of Mr. Charles 

 Moore, the Secretary read for him his paper on " The Hedge- 

 mead Landslip" (vide p. 249). Much interesting information had 

 been gleaned through the trial shaft sunk by the City Surveyor, 

 which bored some 60 feet into the ground and enabled Mr. Moore 

 to establish the fact that the Upper Lias is much thicker in the 

 neighbourhood of Bath than was hitherto supposed. The paper, 

 which ended somewhat abruptly through interruption by the 

 writer's illness, was listened to with marked attention and 

 produced a lively discussion. Mr. HAROLD Lewis declared that 

 the builders of Camden crescent knew a great deal more of 

 geology than those who have built on the hill-side since. Mr. 

 McMurtrie spoke of a similar slij) which had occurred at Radstock, 

 where a hill-side a quarter of a mile in length has been shifted. 

 Such slips were by no means uncommon in this neighbourhood 

 and deserved more attention from geologists than they had 

 hitherto obtained. Captain Lysaght drew attention to a 

 remarkable landslip in an open field near Woolley, between 

 Charlcombe grove and Soper's farm. Mr. Skrine stated that 

 Claverton was supposed to be on the move down into the valley, 

 and that Warley was not without occasional slips. The Eev. H. 

 H. WiNWOOD then made a communication on a sinking for coal 

 near Ebbor rocks, in which he maintained that the rock the 

 workers came upon was not Old Eed Sandstone, as Messrs. 

 Bi'istovve and Woodward had declared, but Coal-measure Sand- 

 atone, and described his observation of the dip of the strata in the 

 valley as justifying the attempt to find coal there. Mr. McMuRTRlE 

 was opposed to Mr. Winwood's view as to the character of the 

 Sandstone, though he wished he could agree with him, for the 

 discovery of true coal in the shales on the south side of the 



