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On a Rhetic Section near Kelston. By the Rev. H. H. 
Winwoop, M.A., F.G.S. 
(Read February 6th, 1884 ). 
Travellers on the Midland line between Bath and Bitton must 
have remarked some many coloured beds of clay on the right hand 
side of the line just before reaching Kelston Station ; indeed it is 
owing to the numerous questions that were put to me on the 
subject that these notes are due. Moreover, it is the duty of a 
Club like our own to carefully watch and record any fresh openings 
or sections that may from time to time occur in our neighbour- 
hood. It is not my intention in this communication, which I have 
the pleasure to lay before you, to lay claim to any new discovery, 
but merely to place on record some details of a section which has 
recently been freshly opened up, and of which a description has 
not as yet been given in print. On the top of the bank, a few 
yards from the Station, some beds of white stone have long been 
seen cropping out, and by any geologist familiar with our locality 
these beds were at once recognised as those White Lias beds about 
which our late lamented member, Charles Moore, so often wrote, and 
by whose acumen their correlation with the Continental Rheetic 
strata was made evident. I need only refer the members of a 
Club who can boast of having had inscribed on its list the name 
of a geologist whose fame is European, to his papers on the 
above subject read before the Geological Society, and found in the 
Quarterly Journal for 1861 and 1867. There the importance of 
these Rheetic beds are set forth, and their existence in England first 
described. It was he who first separated these beds from the 
Liassic formation above and connected them with the Rheetics 
below, and considered from the facies of their fauna and the re- 
markable absence of Saurian remains that if not Triassic they 
were certainly not Liassic, but probably indicated a transition 
period between the two formations, during which a gradual 
