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SECTIONAL. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION 
The first excursion was made, on May 30th, to Ilminster, Moolham, and 
Barrington. Some good sections of the Upper and Middle Lias were 
examined and some nodules from the fish-bed obtained, which however 
contained no fish remains. 
On the second excursion, to Henbury, the party were met by Mr. S. Gr. 
Percival, under whose guidance several interesting quarries in the Carboni- 
ferous Limestone were visited. In some of them seams of white chert 
traversed the rock, lying between the vertical beds of Limestone. The 
party afterwards examined Mr. Percival' s collection of Corals and other 
fossils from the neighbourhood, chiefly Carboniferous and Rhsetic. 
The igneous rocks at Charfield were the object of the third excursion for 
the season. After visiting them the walk was extended to Wotton-under-' 
Edge, in order to examine some quarries in the Upper Lias and Upper Lias 
Sands, from which some fossils were obtained. 
The fourth excursion, though made as late as October 13, was a pleasant 
and successful one. Mr. R. V. Sherring met the members at Paulton and 
conducted them to some interesting quarries in the Middle Lias of that 
neighbourhood. The sections were described by the Rev. H. H. Winwood,' 
and the party were afterwards hospitably entertained by Mr. Sherring 
before they returned to Bristol. 
At the first meeting for the session, Messrs Sherring and Claypole ex- 
hibited a series of Rhsetic fossils found by them last July, in a vertical 
fissure traversing the Carboniferous Limestone beds of the valley between 
Nunney and Holwell near the the town of Mells, in Somersetshire. The 
matrix from which they were extracted consists, for the most part, of a 
yellow loamy deposit occasionally hard and stony, and is full of fragments 
of the older rocks in the neighbourhood. It is most likely the same 
fissure as that from which Mr C. Moore, F. G.S., of Bath obtained the 
magnificent and unique collection in the Museum of that city. Others 
