order to examine the strafa laid bare by the exavations in 
progress for the Portishead Railway. The afternoon was 
very fine, and the attendance of members and visitors good. 
At the first cutting, by Rownham, the upper limestone 
shales, with some siliceous limestone and millatone grit, 
were examined, after which the well-known coral quarry 
was visited, and Mr. Stoddart, who, with Mr. Sanders, the 
president, acted as guide, pointed out his foraraenifera bed. 
Under the buttress of the bridge the first bed of true lime- 
stone was noticed, and at the first tunnel many corals, espe- 
cially Lithostrotion, were met with. It was in this locality 
that two very rare fossils, L. McCoyanum and Platyschisraa 
Jamesii, had been found on a former occasion. In the next 
cutting, the president pointed out some good examples of 
siliceous nodules and crystalline veins in the limestone, 
after which, passing the great fault in Nightingale-valley, 
the upper limestone series was observed to occur over again. 
A littoral bed was pointed out, from which several fossils 
were obtained, among them Terebratula hastata, an uncom- 
mon shell. A quarry on the side of the railway was then 
visited, noted as the only locality in the neighbourhood for 
coal plants. Shortly afterwards, some magnificent specimens 
of Producta gigantea and Euomphalus nodosua were ob- 
tained, and when the lower limestone shales were at length 
reached, many characteristic shells were found, among them 
a Leptaena and Chonetea hardreasis. The party then left 
the line of railway, and, after some trouble, succeeded in 
finding a small bed, known to Mr. Stoddart, which, to a 
persevering search, yielded some specimens of the latest 
occurring Trilobite, Phillipsia pustulosa, and also Retzia 
radialis. 
F. ASHMEAD, 
S. H. S WAYNE 
A. NOBLE, 
J. BARBER, 
P.H.YABBICOM, 
WM. LANT CARPENTER, 
Hon, Reporting Secretary* 
