252 Field Notes. 



MUSEUMS ASSOCIATION AT MRISTOL. 



The anniKiI conference of Mnseirn-;' Curators (the Museums 

 Association) was held at Bristol from July 2iid-6th. Dr. W. E. 

 Hoyle, of the Manchester Museum, presided. It was excep- 

 tionally well attended, and, whether viewed from the excellence 

 and usefulness of the papers read and discussed, the interest 

 attached to the places visited, or the delij^htful way in which 

 the visitors were entertained, it must be admitted that the 

 meeting- was one of the most successful the Association has 

 held. Bristol certainly shows up much better than many 

 northern towns as regards its 'show places.' In addition to 

 the Museum, Art Gallery, and Zoological Gardens in the city, 

 visits were paid to the Stone Circle, etc., at Stanton Drew 

 (described by Prof. Lloyd Morg'-an), the Cheddar Cliffs and 

 Caves, and the British Lake Village at Glastonbury. The last 

 named was described by its discoverer, Mr. A. BuUeid. 

 Representatives from the following northern museums were 

 present: — Bootle, Bolton, Chester, Carlisle, Hull, Hudders- 

 field, Keighley, Liverpool, Manchester, St. Helens, Sheffield, 

 Stockport, Sunderland, and York. Next year's conference 

 will be at Dundee. 



GEOLOGY. 



The 'Sheli = bed' at Speeton. — ^The so-called Speeton 

 Shell-bed, originally described by Mr. G. W. Lamplugh 

 (' Drifts of Flamborough Headland,' ' Quar. Journ. Geol. Soc.,' 

 Vol. 47, 1891), has recently been exposed on the beach at the 

 foot of the cliffs about 600 yards north of Reighton Gap. 

 From it the characteristic shells were obtained. This gives a 

 total exposure of the bed at beach level of about half a mile. — 

 C. G. Danfoki), Reighton, July 17th, 1906. 



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 WOLLVSCS. 

 Testacella scutulum at Rastrick. — On May 24th, Mr .V. 

 C. Lane sent me two slugs found in a garden at Rastrick, which 

 he said lived on worms ; that portion of the garden infested by 

 the slugs being almost denuded of worms. I ha\e submitted 

 one of them to Mr. J. W. Taylor, F.L. S., of Leeds, and he 

 pronounces them to be TestucelUi scutuhim Sowerby. This is 

 a new record for the Parish of Halifax. John \l. Ckow riii-R,. 

 Elland, June iith, 1906. 



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