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after so many years of valuable service, and offered their thauks to him for all that 

 he had done for them. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. According to Rule 3 the President nominated the Lord 

 Eustace Cecil, F.R.G.S., Mr. W. H. Hudleston, M.A., F.K.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., and 

 Mr. Vaughan Cornish, M.Sc., F.C.S., F.R.G.S., to be Vice -Presidents, in addition 

 to the two cx-officio Vice- Presidents viz., the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. The following alteration in the Eules was passed at the 

 instance of the Hon. Secretary : 



Rule 15. Instead of "and approved by the Hon. Secretary" to insert "the 

 Hon. Secretary and approved by him or the Executive." 



The Proceedings of the Somerset Archaeological Society, lately received, was 

 laid on the table and presented by the Club to the Museum Library. 



A Report on the work of the Corresponding Societies Committee at the Dover 

 (1899) Meeting of the British Association was communicated by the Club's 

 delegate, Mr. Vaughan Cornish. The chief matter dealt with was coast erosion. 

 In consequence of a suggestion made by Mr. Cornish at Bristol in 1898 permission 

 had been obtained to make use of the Coastguards for procuring regular reports 

 from time to time as to coast erosion, and memoranda of the points on which 

 information was desired. It was hoped that this scheme might greatly increase 

 the reliable data on the subject. Another matter was a discussion on the best 

 way of making the meetings of the Committee more generally useful to the 

 Corresponding Societies, and it was hoped that arrangements might be carried 

 out at Bradford and at subsequent meetings of the British Association which 

 would have that effect. 



EXHIBITS AND NOTES. 



BY THE PRESIDENT: 



(1) Portions of two cores of coral rag rock from the coal borings at Dover and 

 Branbourne, distant a few miles westward, at a depth respectively of 809 and 

 990 feet, similar to the iron- shot ferruginous beds at Abbotsbury, and on the 

 same geological horizon. Although so near to each other, the coal is present at 

 Dover and absent 1 at Branboume, owing to an anticlinal, which brings the trias 

 in conjunction with a fine argillaceous, unfossiliferous sandstone, considered to 

 be Devonian (ty, and consequently below the coal measures, from which it may be 

 inferred that the western boundary of this coal field does not extend as far south- 

 west as Braubourne. It will be observed that the oolitic grains of oxide of iron 

 are cemented together by the sandy material of the rock. 



BY CAPTAIN ARTHUR RICKARDS : 



(2) A slice cut from the meteorite No. 22 in the British Museum, South Ken- 

 sington, and marked " Arva (Salanicza) Hungary, 1844," as the date and place 

 of find. This slice is 44 grains ; the entire meteorite was 9,010*7 grains, or rather 

 more than l^lb. 



(3) Two balls of Iron Pyrites (not infrequently mistaken for meteoric stones) 

 from a chalk formation. 



