46 FIFTY YEARS GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 
a contemporary of Moore's, and, as is remarked by Mr. Winwood 
in his account of Charles Moore and his work, 1 there were many 
passages of arms between these local champions. 
The earliest years of the Bristol Naturalists' Society were also 
those in which Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, still happily with us, 
published some of the most noteworthy of his many important 
researches on the caves of the South-West of England and their 
inhabitants. In 1862 and 1863 appeared his famous papers on the 
Hyaena den of Wookey Hole, 2 by which the contemporaneity of 
man in Britain with the extinct Pleistocene mammals was first 
established. These papers were followed in 1865 by one on the 
* Fossil mammals of the cavern and river deposits of Somerset,' 3 
and in collaboration with Mr. W. A. Sanford by one on the caves 
of Burrington Combe. 4 
The first part of these authors' monograph on the Pleistocene 
mammalia published by the Palaeontographical Society, apoeared 
in 1866, the introduction being of particular interest to Bristol 
geologists. Prof. Boyd Dawkins' local work at this period was 
not confined to caves and their faunas, but included his well- 
known paper on the Rhaetic and White Lias of Western and 
Central Somerset 5 (1864) in which he announced the discovery 
for the first time in England of the remains of a Triassic mammal. 
This fossil was found in the grey marls below the Bone-Bed at 
Watchet. 
In 1864 appeared the first of the long series of papers on the 
Coal-beds of Somerset 6 by the late Mr. J. McMurtrie. 
1870-1879. 
To this decade belong most of the long list of papers on local 
geology contributed to the Bristol Naturalists' Society's Proceed- 
ings by W. W. Stoddart, though perhaps his most valuable paper, 
that entitled ' Notes on the Lower-Lias beds of Bristol', 7 was pub- 
lished in 1868. His detailed account of the whole succession 
from Silurian to Jurassic, with fossil lists and illustrative sections 
must always be referred to by subsequent students of these rocks. 
The Rev. H. H. Winwood in 187 1 contributed the first of his 
many papers 8 to the Proceedings of the Bath Natural History 
1 Proc. Bath Nat. Hist, and Antiq. F. Club, Vol. VII, pp. 232-269. 
2 Q.J.G.S., Vol. XVIII, (1862), pp. 115-125; ibid. Vol. XIX, (1S63), 
pp. 260-273 ; and Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XI, pt. 2, 
pp. 197-219. 
3 Rep. Brit. Ass. (Bath), Trans, of Sections p. 53. 
4 Proc. Somerset Arch, and Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. XII, pt. 2, p. 161. 
5 QJ.G.S, Vol. XX, pp. 396-412. 
6 G. C. Greenwell and J. McMurtrie, "The Radstock portion of the 
Somersetshire Coalfield," Svo., Neivcastle-on-Tync. 
7 QJ.G.S. , Vol. XXIV, pp. 199—204. 
8 Notes on the Rhaetic Section, Newbridge Hill, Proc. Bath Nat. Hist, 
and Antiq. Field Club, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 204-211. 
