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quarry was next visited, and the beds which contain so many Ichthyodo- 
rulites and palates were carefully searched for their fossil remains ; a great 
number of very interesting fossils were collected, among them several 
teeth of the well known Carboniferous Fish, Helodus and Psam- 
modus. Underlying this series of beds were seen the Lower Limestone 
Shales, which there attained a thickness of 500 feet, and were excessively 
rich in fossils, more especially Trilobites, Polyzoa, and Brachiopods. Mr. 
Stoddart here showed to several of the geological members the bed that 
he considered equivalent to the Coomhola beds in Ireland, and to some of 
the so-called Upper Devonian in Devonshire. The former series (Coom- 
hola) are named from a glen in the county of Cork, near Glengariff Har- 
bour, Bantry Bay, where, as well as in county Kerry, the lower portion of 
the Carboniferous formation attains an enormous developement. 
The junction between the Old Red Sandstone and the Carboniferous 
series was well observed in the railway cutting, the gradual transition from 
calcareous to arenaceous beds being carefully noted. 
A short walk then brought the members to the little station at Sea 
Mills, and advantage was taken of the passing train to convey them to 
Shirehampton, where they crossed the river by the ferry to Pill, and again 
entered a train, on the Portishead Railway, which carried them to that 
pretty little watering-place, where dinner had been provided, and where 
they were joined by a few gentlemen who, feeling unequal to the walk 
along the river, had parted with them at Leigh Court, and then driven to 
Portishead. By this time the fresh air and exercise had excited a keen 
appetite in all the party, but before dinner commenced, Dr. Martyn took 
a few enthusiastic geologists a rapid walk to look at a bed in the Old 
Red Sandstone which was believed to contain traces of the remains of 
Fish. This supposition was afterwards verified as a face by the Geological 
section, in an excursion token to the same locality on September 11th, 
(for an account of which see page 78,) expressly organized for the purpose 
of properly marking and examining this deposit, and the neighbouring 
strata. 
The dinner, which was well served at the Hotel, was done full justice to, 
and after the cloth had been removed, a few speeches were made by the 
Secretary and other members of the Somersetshire Archaeological and 
Natural History Society, thanking the Bristol Naturalists' Society for the 
way in which it had forwarded the interests of its guests at the meeting 
in Bristol, thus pleasantly brought to a conclusion. Mr. W. W. Stoddart 
and Mr. Leipner acknowledged the compliment on behalf of the Bristol 
Naturalists Society, and after drinking the health of the Ladies, (only one 
of whom, unfortunately, attended the excursion) — a toast which was ac- 
knowledged in a highly humorous manner, by a witty bachelor belonging: 
