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Bristol Philosophical Institution constitute one of the most efficient 
means of carrying out objects and principles identical with those 
which the society has in view. Without enlarging further on this 
subject, your Council feel, that they may confidently leave in the 
hands of the society the proposal of a second grant of Ten Guineas 
to the Museum Tund of the Institution. It is also recommended, 
that the vote of thanks to the Committee of the Institution for the use 
of their building, should be accompanied by the presentation of the 
lately-purchased specimen of ''Apteryx," as a fitting contribution 
to the collection of natural objects in the Museum. 
In respect to the transactions of the second year, a brief 
outKne of the several excursions and meetings will offer many points 
worthy of notice in this report. 
The excursions, four in number, took place in the order fol- 
lowing: — In the month of June, a trip was arranged to Clevedon 
by rail, thence on foot to Walton Castle, and along the hill 
returning by the sea-side to Clevedon. The Eev. G. W. Eraiken- 
ridge communicated to the party a botanical history of the locality, 
and the President, Mr. Wm. Sanders, explained the geological 
phenomena most worthy of notice in the course of the walk. 
The second excursion in July, had for its object the examination 
of the deep cutting near Patch way, on the line of the S.W. Union 
Railway, on which occasion Mr. Charles Moore of Bath favoured 
the party with his company, and collected the materials for a paper 
read by that gentleman at one of the meetings. 
The next expedition in August, was directed to the Lias Quarries 
of Keynsham, and the great fault in the stratification of Bitton-hill. 
The objects of the party were successfully accomplished under the 
guidance of the President, Mr. Sanders. 
In September, a party again assembled, undeterred by the very 
unfavourable weather experienced on two of the three previous 
excursions, to explore the fossil beds of the limestone formation on 
the banks of the Avon from the Hotwells to Sea-Mills, and to obtain 
from the marshes below Shirehampton certain botanical specimens. 
