168 PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 1906 
favour of our Members. It is on record that some few 
years since, only six or seven Members attended a Meeting 
held there. Probably most of our Members know the 
place well, and we must look to that fact as the reason for 
a thinner attendance than at our other Meetings, which as 
I have said before were conspicuously well patronized. 
The Roman Baths, and modern Pump Room were visited, 
and some of us looked with the interest which it deserved 
at that very cryptic letter of Venisius to Nigra, one of the 
most difficult pieces of writing to decipher which students 
of paleography have been faced with. After lunch, a 
gravel-pit, in which mammalian remains had been found, 
and fragments of rocks from far distant places, was visited, 
as also a section of Lower Lias. Then came the Abbey 
with all its memories, not least perhaps being that one 
which brought before us, as having taken place within the 
walls of its predecessor, the first coronation of an English 
King of which we have anything like a minute description, 
I mean that of Eadgar in 973. 
Our second Meeting at Lavernock, near Cardiff, was 
very well attended. A more enjoyable day can seldom 
have been spent by the Club, or a more instructive one. 
Mr Richardson as usual had all the geological features 
at his fingers’ ends; so that on our walk to Sully our 
attention was being constantly called to the quite un- 
usually numerous varieties of beds exposed. To such an 
ignoramus as myself, the sections, owing to their very 
number and diversity, were quite bewildering. Keuper, 
Rhetic, White Lias, Lower Lias, Paper Shales, and 
Dolomitic Conglomerate, what did we not see between 
our pic-nic lunch, and equally pic-nicky tea at Swanbridge 
Farm. 
The Wotton-under-Edge District next claimed us, and 
a pleasant Meeting was held. The Carboniferous Lime- 
stone and Old Red Sandstone at Wickwar were inspected 
