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SECTIONAL MEETINGS. 
THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
FIELD WALKS. 
The first walk took place on April 30th, when twelve members, under the 
guidance of Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.G.S., proceededto Dundry, examined 
there the Inferior Oolite (obtaining some fossils) also the junction of the 
Inferior Oolite with the Upper Lias, and procured some good ammonites from 
the Upper Lias cephalopoda bed. 
The second walk was taken on June 10th, when the party, conducted by 
the President, Mr. William Sanders, F.R.S., examined some Lias quarries at 
Keynsham, containing some enormous ammonites ; and further on the gravel 
beds, (the ancient bed of the river Avon) obtaining there some teeth and 
bones of Ehinoceros. The members then walked to the cutting on the 
Mangotsfield Railway, where the Lias beds were exhibited. Here also, the 
great fault was pointed out and carefully examined. 
The third walk, on August 1 5th, was taken for the purpose of examining 
the Aust Cliff. Large blocks of the Lias Bone bed were broken up, and some 
teeth and bones obtained. 
On September 8th, a break conveyed the members to Whitchurch, where 
a section of the Middle Lias on the North Somerset Railway was examined, 
and the peculiarities explained by Mr. W. W. Stoddart, F.G S. Some good 
fossils were found here, including Straparolus. From the Railway Cutting 
a short walk brought the party to Maesknoll, a Roman camp of large size. 
Here the Upper Lias and Inferior Oolite were examined. From the former 
some good illustrations of Pholas borings were taken away, and in a con- 
glomerate of the iDferior Oolite were found many teeth of Hybodus. 
No reports have yet been received from the other Sections. 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 
Cooke, M. C. Microscopic Fungi— (rust, smut, mildew, and mould.) — 
Presented by Mr. T. H. Yabbicom. 
Hassell on Food and its Adulterations ; — Airy's Lectures on Astronomy ; — 
Muller's Physiology of the Senses ; — G. F. Browne : On Ice Caves in 
France and Switzerland ;■— Tyndall : On the Glaciers of the Alps ; — 
Maury's Physical Geography of the Sea ; — Ansted's Geological Gossip ; 
—Darwin: A Naturalist's Voyage round the World ;— Reports of the 
British Association, from 1847 to 1868, also Index to Transactions of 
do. (1831 to 1861). Presented by Mr. F. F. Tuckett. 
Journal of Quekett Microscopical Club, Nos. 8, 9. Presented by the 
Club. 
Seeman's Journal of Botany, Vol. VI. Presented by the Botanical Section. 
Kenngott, Prof. Microscopical investigation of thin polished laminae of the 
Knyahynia Meteorite; — Prof. R. Jones, W. K. Parker, and J. W.I 
Kirkby : On the Nomenclature of the Foraminifera ; — Prof. R. Jones : 
On the Palaeozoic Bivalved Entomostraca. Presented by Prof. T. 
Rupert Joues. 
Keys, I. W. N. Flora of Devon and Cornwall, Partg 2, 3, 4. Presented by 
Mr. Wm. Pockson. 
