18 ELEVKNTII ANNUAL MEETING. 



pvesent appellation of the street adjoining its site, whlcli 

 Las long been known as " St. Jolm's Street." The site is 

 now occupied by a new building, consisting of schools for 

 imparting a sound religious education to the young of 

 Coming generations. For this the inhabitants of Wells 

 have, in the first place, to thank the late owner, Captnin 

 Sherston, whose munificence deserves a more public ac- 

 knowledgment than it has yet received ; and in the next 

 place to the committee and subscribers, (among the more 

 active of whom were the Very Rev. the Dean, Vicar of St. 

 Cuthbert's, and his Curates, the Rev. H. E. Ravenhill and 

 the Eev. J. Troutbeck) whose eiForts and liberality have 

 combined to rcar and complete the new schools, which are 

 intended to serve as modeis for subsequent structures of 

 a similar nature in this diocese. The foundation stone of 

 these schools was laid July 16tli, 1858." 



Thcre was an Ordinary in the afternoon, which was well 

 attended, and in the evening the proceedings of the 

 Society were resumed. 



The Rev. T. Hugo, M.A., read a paper on " Taunton 

 Priory," which is given in Part II. 



Mr. Charles ]\Ioore, F.G.S., exhibited a most in- 

 teresting series of fossils, including fish-bones and mamma- 

 lian remains, lately discovered by him in Triassic beds 

 which had been formed in fissures in the Carboniferous 

 strata near Frome. He stated that in about three cubic 

 yards of coarse friable sand from this deposit, he had found 

 not fewer than 45,000 teeth of fish — of the geiius Acrodus 

 alone. Teeth of several species of Sauricthys were also 

 abundant, and next to them teeth of Hyhodus, with occa- 

 sional spines of the latter genus. Teeth and scales of 

 Lepidotus, and scales of Gyrolepis were also numerous, aa 

 also were teeth showing the presence of several other 



