FIFTY YEARS GEOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN THE BRISTOL DISTRICT. 47 
and Antiquarian Field Club, while H. B. Woodward, who had 
been for some years engaged on the Survey of the Bristol District, 
published between 1870 and 1875 twelve papers on local geology. 
In 1876 appeared his geological survey memoir on the West Somer- 
set and Bristol Coalfield. Not the least valuable part of this well- 
known memoir is the list of publications on local geology already 
alluded to. 
E. B. Ta wney's all too short connection with Bristol 
as curator of the Bristol Museum (1871-1879) was noteworthy for 
the publication of a varied series of papers having a local bearing, 
those on ' Dundry gasteropoda ' 1 (1874), °n ' Trias dykes ' 2 (1875), 
and ' On the Lias in the neighbourhood of Radstock ' 3 (1875) being 
published in the Bristol Naturalists' Society's Proceedings. Bristol 
geologists also owe much to him for his work in the development 
of the Bristol Museum. R. Tate (1875) also described the Rad- 
stock Lias.* 
Moore's wide geological activity continued during this period, 
during which his attention was particularly directed to the Pleisto- 
cene deposits and their fauna, as is shown by his papers ' On the 
Mammalia from the drift deposits of Bath' 5 (1870), and 'On the 
Banwell Bone Cave ' 6 (1877). 
The meeting of the British Association at Bristol in 1875 proved 
a considerable stimulus to geological work in the district. The 
President of the Geological Section, Dr. T. Wright, gave an 
address which his successor as President of the Section at the 
Jristol meeting in 1898 — 23 years later — said might serve as a text- 
book on the geology of the district. Much was written at this 
time by J. McMurtrie, H. B. Woodward, and others, on the 
geology of the Mendips, particularly on a subject which proved one 
of geological controversy during the succeeding decades, viz., the 
relation to the surrounding rocks of certain isolated masses of 
Carboniferous Limestone at Luckington and Vobster. 
1880-1889. 
The earlier part of this period coincided with Prof. Sollas' tenure 
of the Professorship of Geology and Zoology at the University 
College, Bristol, and with his Curatorship of the Museum. Among 
his local papers attention may be drawn to the extremely valuable 
general account of the geology 7 prepared for the visit of the 
Geologists' Association to Bristol in 1880. 
1 Proc. Bristol Nat. Soc, n.s., Vol. I, pp. 9-59. 
-Ibid. pp. 162-166. 
;! Ibid. pp. 167-1S9. 
4 QJ.G.S., Vol. XXXI, pp. 493-509. 
r 'Proc. Bath Nat. Hist, and Antiq. Field Club, Vol. II., No. 1, pp. 37-55. 
6 Trans. Cardiff Nat. Soc, Vol. IX, pp. 64-66. 
7 Proc. Geol. Ass., Vol. VI, pp. 375-391. 
