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paper was illustrated with some admirable diagrams, for which all 
the papers he reads to the club are so noted, and from several 
important facts which he brought forward for the first time, was 
calculated to unravel certain problems of complicated geclogy in 
the Mendip district, (to be printed in the next number of the Club's 
proceedings. ) 
A discussion ensued, in which Messrs. Charles Moore, Ekin, 
Tawney and Winwood took part, and was closed with a vote of 
thanks to the lecturer. 
This paper was followed by one from the SECRETARY on a 
Rheetic and Lower Lias section near the Old Down Inn on the 
Bath and Evercreech line. The object of this paper was to 
follow up the geological thread dropped last session, and record 
‘in the annals of the Bath Field Club some of the more important 
“passage bed” sections that occur in that interesting tract of 
country (to be printed in the neat number of the Club’s proceedings. ) 
The VICE-PRESIDENT contributed a paper on the evening of 
Jan. 15th, on the physical features and historical connections of 
the Mendip range, under the title of ‘Gleanings in the Mendip 
and its Vallies,” of which the following is an abstract :— 
The paper began by describing the Geological and Geographical features 
of the Mendip Hills, and afterwards passed on to consider the remains of 
an ancient Celtic population which had inhabited that region. The barrows 
circles and hollows were duly mentioned, and references given to more 
full details in the ‘‘ Journal of the Archeological Institute,” The Roman 
road, which, passing into Somerset near Maiden Bradley in Wilts, and 
continuing along the crest of the Mendip, ends at the promontory of 
Brean Down, was next considered ; the camps which lie along the line 
of the road, and which for the most part command passes through the 
hills, were carefully described. Some appear as pr-Roman, and others 
undoubtedly Roman. Also the roads passing through the defiles ; one 
coming from Portishead and Portbury, and branching off towards Bridg- 
water, and the Polden Hills, Next the Roman remains found at Charter. © 
house, the Camp and Amphitheatre, the Pigs, and Laminz, or bands 
of lead, bearing the Imperial stamp of Rome dating from the time of 
the Emperors Claudius and Vespasian to that of the Antonines ; the 
coins aa reaching from Mark Antony to Probus and Tetricus, The 
