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through coloured Shales and Sandstones (query Coal Measure 
Sandstone or Millstone Grit?) The botanists appear to have 
found little to reward their research, owing to the extreme lateness 
of the season. By this time the members began to feel the 
necessity of a little respite from the mass of geological details 
which had been impressed upon them, and leisurely strolled by 
road and field to the Binegar station en route for Bath. 
Brent Knoll.—The excursion to Brent Knoll on Tuesday, May 
2nd, was evidently attractive, as a larger number of members 
than usual turned out of the 11.59 train at the small station of 
Brent. After a dusty and hot walk of about a mile the party was 
hospitably received by Archdeacon Fitzgerald at his pretty 
vicarage of South Brent (or Brent Knoll, as now called to 
prevent confusion with South Brent in Devon) and conducted 
into the garden, where tiger, grizzly bear and panther skins 
(the latter very fine, measuring some 8ft. in length) were 
enticingly spread out on the grass.. But the work in prospect 
admitted not of such inviting repose, and the Church close at 
hand was at once inspected. Entering the south porch and 
passing throngh a Transition doorway into the nave, the members 
recognised the usual type of the Somerset Perpendicular in the 
lofty piers separating the nave from the north aisle. Consisting 
of nave, north aisle, with a chapel on the south now used as a 
vestry, and a chancel, of which it will be sufficient to say that it 
was built about fifty years ago, the Church has many features of 
peculiar interest. A fine wagon roof, of which the ribs are 
ancient—the intermediate woodwork having supplied the place of 
the pre-existing plaster—spans the nave ; a very fine old Perpen- 
dicular roof, with its massive bosses, covers the north aisle, at the’ 
east end of which, and attached to the wall, isa Transition pillar 
and support for a piscina. In the chapel tothe south of the nave 
the cusps of the inner arch of the west and south windows are 
similar to those at Bitton Church, the work of Button, Bishop of 
Wells, and contains a credence table and piscina. The bench 
