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Vol. II. AUGUST, 1867. No. 8. 
EXCURSION -MEETING. 
Friday, August 29th, 1867. — This excursion had been arranged to 
take plaee in conjunction with the Somersetshire Archaeological and Na- 
tural History Society, which bad been holding its nineteenth annual 
meeting at the Fine Arts' Academy, Clifton, on the three preceding days, 
and the object was to examine the Geology and Natural History of the 
gorge of the river Avon, in illustration of a Paper " On the Geology of 
the Bristol District," which had been read by Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.G.S., 
at the meeting of the Somersetshire Society. 
Accordingly, a number of members of the two Societies assembled on 
the Observatory Hill, Clifton Down, at ten o'clock, and shortly drove in 
the breaks which had been provided for their accommodation to Leigh 
Court, where Sir William Miles had kindly thrown open to the inspection 
of the party a splendid collection of his paintings, as well as of antique 
bronzes, and other objects of great interest to the Archaeologists. Ad van- 
