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(Moore non Sowerby). On the east side of the road just south of the 
viaduct is the section that was first noticed by De la Beche and later 
described in detail by Charles Moore. It shows massive Lower-Lias 
limestones faulted against the highly-inclined Carboniferous Lime- 
stone, upon the well-planed surface of which is a layer of Rhetic 
conglomerate one foot thick replete with the vertebrate-remains of 
the epoch. 
Tea at the Bell Hotel terminated the excursion, the Members 
leaving Shepton Mallet by the 5.1 p.m. train for Bath. 
EXCURSION TO STROUD AND BISLEY 
TUESDAY, September 15th, 1908 
Directors: SiR JOHN DORINGTON, BART., L. RICHARDSON, and 
C. UPTON. 
(Report by L. RICHARDSON and W. THOMPSON) 
The Members of this Club have been very fortunate in the 
selection of days for their Field Meetings this year. Until this 
Meeting each fixture had been favoured with exceptionally fine 
weather, and even in respect of the closing one Sir John Dorington, 
standing on his sunlit terrace, after the rain of the morning had yielded 
to kindlier conditions, congratulated his visitors on their good fortune. 
A full programme had been arranged, and there was a large and 
representative attendance. 
The Members present were :—Rev. Walter Butt (President), 
Rev. H. H. Winwood, F.G.S., Mr Charles Upton and Mr W. R. 
Carles, C.M.G., F.L.S. (Vice-Presidents), Mr L. Richardson, F.R.S. 
Edin., F.L.S. (Hon. Secretary), Mr J. G. Phillips (Aon. Librarian), 
Mr E. Talbot Paris (Hon. Assistant Secretary), The Right Hon. Sir 
John E. Dorington, Bart., Dep.-Sur.-Gen. G. A. Watson, Rev. C. H. 
Davis, and Messrs W. Bishop, C. R. Booth, Walter Brown, H. W. 
Bruton, A. Cockshott, S. J. Coley, J. M. Collett, F.C.S., F. J. Cullis, 
F.G.S., C. Curtis, J. M. Dison, T. S. Ellis, R.. G, Foster; (cao: 
Fowler, F. Hannam-Clark, J. N. Hobbs, W. Margetson, H. E. Norris, 
J. W. Skinner, A. E. Smith, W. Thompson; while Mr F. H. 
Bretherton (Mayor of Gloucester), Captain C. H. L. Cockshott, 
H. H. Bishop, T. M. Layng, and several others came as visitors. 
Latterly an attempt has been made to so vary the day’s pro- 
gramme as to render it attractive to those Members who possess no 
special knowledge of geology, and who prefer to take this science in 
conjunction with archeology. By adopting this course the excursions 
