The Geologists’ Association. dol 
obtained. Mr. Winwood pointed out that the lowest bed of the 
Inferior Oolite contained pebbles of limestone ; and this suggested 
some reconstruction of the strata that marked the interval between 
the Inferior Oolite and the Midford Sands at this locality. ‘The 
Midford Sands represented the passage-beds between the Upper 
Lias and the lower beds of the Inferior Oolite: they yielded 
Ammonites radians, A. striatulus, etc. The members returned to 
Bath by the 5.87 train. 
After dinner at the Fernley Hotel, the President drew attention 
to some of the geologists who have made Bath famous. He first 
mentioned John Walcott, whose “ Descriptions and Figures of 
Petrifactions, found in the quarries, gravel-pits, etc., near Bath,” 
was published more than 100 years ago, in 1779. William Smith 
too was more intimately acquainted with Somersetshire (perhaps 
Yorkshire excepted) than with any other part of England, and for 
some time he had resided at Bath. One of his friends, the Rev. 
Joseph Townsend, rector of Pewsey, had in 1819 first published some 
of Smith’s facts, including accounts of our Oolitic strata and their 
fossils. 'Townsend’s work was entitled “The Character of Moses 
established for veracity as an Historian, recording events from the 
Creation to the Deluge,” and the title had naturally somewhat 
obscured the geological merits of the work. The Rev. J. J. 
Conybeare, for 11 years rector of Batheaston, was also mentioned, 
for he did some good geological work, and introduced Sedgwick to 
his brother, the distinguished W. D. Conybeare, who at one time 
held a lectureship in the church at Brislington. Talking of 
Sedgwick called to mind the fact that one of his earliest pupils at 
Cambridge was the Rev. Leonard Blomefield (then Jenyns)—a man 
distinguished as a Zoologist, and who also had rendered service to 
Geology. He attended Sedgwick’s lectures so long ago as 1819-20, 
and had remarked that even then, a year after he had been elected, 
the Professor “seemed a master of the subject.” Passing on to 
William Lonsdale, some account of his early life was given. He 
was born in Bath in 1794 and served in the Peninsular War. He 
was the founder of the Bath Geological Museum and was Honorary 
Curator from 1826 to 1829, when he went to London. His geologi- 
cal work was referred to as an example of careful and accurate 
study, and one of his MS. geological maps was exhibited. Mr. 
Winwood also brought some of his MS. catalogues, which are 
marvels of neatness. Remarks were also made on Charles Moore, 
who did so much to elucidate the geology of Somerset, and whose 
collections of fossils from the Lias and Oolites form so important a 
feature in the Bath Museum. 
On Monday the members of the Association visited Bradford-on- 
Avon, leaving Bath at 10.18 a.m. There were about 60 members 
and friends, including Mr. W. H. Hudleston, F.R.S., President of 
the Geological Society of London), and Mrs. Hudleston, Prof. J. F. 
Blake and Prof. Lloyd Morgan. The first portion of the pro- 
gramme was under the direction of the Rev. H. H. Winwood, and 
he conducted the party to the pits by the canal on the south side of 
