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him by Mr. Aspland. From these sands he had lately obtained 
fossil evidence, which he thought would help to decide the 
question whether they are to be placed with the Oolitic or with 
the Liassic series. 
The Evening of Jan. 14th, 1874, was set apart for the Revs. 
Prebendary Scarth and H. N. Ellacombe ; the former read a short 
paper on ‘ Ancient Mining in the Mendips.’ Commencing with 
the subject of Roman Mining generally, the implements they 
used, and the numerous traces of their industry left behind them in 
England; he gave a minute account of the various ‘pigs’ of 
lead, their weight, inscriptions, and the localities where they have 
been found, and then proceeded to describe the late important 
discoveries at Charterhouse, on the Mendips. In concluding he 
suggested that Wooky Hole, near Wells, was an ancient Roman 
lead mine. 
Thanks were returned for Mr. Scarth’s paper, and the Club was 
congratulated on having an Archeologist in the neighbourhood 
so well able to take notes of these important ‘ finds.’ 
The Chairman called attention to the absence on these “ pigs” 
of lead of any names calculated to advance the topography of this 
neighbourhood ; the names of the Roman Emperors, which alone 
occur, being of little use for that purpose. 
Mr. Winwood took exception to one statement only in Mr. 
Searth’s paper—i.e., that the formation of Wookey Hole was 
chiefly due to the mining enterprise of the Romans, and argued, 
both from etymological and geological reasons, that this could not 
have been the case. 
_ The rest of the evening was spent in listening to a very 
neatly written paper by Mr. Ellacombe, on ‘The Daisy ; its 
History, Poetry and Botany,’ of which the following is an 
abstract :— 
The subject, though apparently insignificant, fairly falls within the 
province of afield club. As to its name, no better can be suggested than 
