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the picturesque cliff which overhung his house at Tucking Mill, 
near Midford.” 
Leaving this section we pass on to the cutting behind Mr. 
Moger’s house, where the Sands are seen to thin out and are 
capped with a bed of Inferior Oolite some five feet thick, Con- 
glomeratic at the base, and containing the usual characteristic 
fossils, e.g., Rhynconella spinosa, Trigonia costata, Astarte excavata, 
&e., &c. Thence we enter the tunnel cut out of the “Midford 
Sands,” where for the present we must remain until we pick up 
the thread of our geological ramble on some future occasion. 
Whilst asking your indulgence for the imperfect way in which 
I have brought these notes before you, and being sensible of the 
dulness of the subject to those who have not studied geology 
through lack of opportunity or other causes, I nevertheless feel 
that no apology is needed, even to ladies, in the present day for 
bringing this increasingly interesting study before them, for 
amongst their ranks are to be found many who ply both pen and 
hammer most ably and successfully in aid of this noble science. 
: Address to Members of the Bath Field Club. By Rey. Pres. 
Scartu, M.A. 
(Read April 23rd, 1874.) 
In the absence of our gifted and highly esteemed President 
who has so often addressed us on these occasions, and given to us 
his views on the object of our meetings and excursions, and set 
forth with his usual ability and kindness the purposes for which 
Clubs of a similar kind have been instituted, and directed our 
attention to subjects worthy of investigation ; as well as informed 
us of the progress which Science has made in opening out the 
Secrets of Nature, and disclosing the wonderful workings of 
Creative Wisdom; I am called upon this day to occupy his 
position, and to take up another subject, and seek to do for 
