PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Briston Naturaists Socrery. 
Tue following extract from the Second Annual Report of this 
Society will be interesting to many of your readers: 
“Jn respect to the transactions of the second year, a brief 
outline of the several excursions and meetings will offer many 
poimts worthy of notice in this report. 
“ The excursions, four in number, took place in the order fol- 
lowing :—In the month of June, a trip was arranged to Clevedon 
by rail, thence on foot to Walton Castle, and along the hill, 
returning by the sea-side to Clevedon. The Rev. G. W. Braiken- 
ridge communicated to the party a botanical history of the locality, 
and the President, Mr. Wm. Sanders, explained the geological 
phenomena most worthy of notice in the course of the walk. 
“The second excursion, in July, had for its object the examina- 
tion of the deep cutting near Patchway, on the line of the S. W. 
Union Railway, on which Mr. Charles Moore, of Bath,\favoured 
the party with his company, and collected the materials for a 
paper read by that gentleman at one of the meetings. 
“The next expedition in August, was directed to the Lias 
Quarries of Keynsham, and the great fault in the stratification of 
Bitton-hill. The objects of the party were successfully accom- 
plished under the guidance of the President, Mr. Sanders. 
“In September, a party again assembled, undeterred by the very 
unfavorable weather experienced on two of the three previous 
excursions, to explore the fossil beds of the limestone formation on 
the banks of the Avon from the Hotwells to Sea-Mills, and to 
obtain from the marshes below Shirehampton certain botanical 
specimens. This excursion formed an agreeable close to the 
series of summer meetings. 
“On the Ist of October, the society resumed its evening meet- 
ings at the Institution. 
“The question of election of new members was discussed at 
this meeting, and the future management and responsibility of 
the elections transferred to the Council,—the time of the meet- 
ing being thus devoted to the scientific engagements of the 
evening. The Council were further empowered to invite the 
attendance of ladies on suitable occasions, 
