The Baths having been found on investigation to 



require extensive repairs before they could be made 



available for the current season, your Council had no 



alternative but to put them into a comparative state 



of efficiency ; accordingly, under the superintendence 



of Mr. Simpson, the necessary outlay was made, and 



your Council is happy to add that they found no 



difficulty in leasing them for £ 25 per annum to Mr. 



William Hill, whose wife has had for many years the 



management of the establishment under the Bath 

 Company. 



The Council must not omit again to acknowledge 

 the obligation the Society is under to Mr. Martin 

 Simpson for the continuance of his able services in 

 arranging and superintending the Museum generally, 

 and to express regret that the state of the Society's 

 funds does not admit of an adequate remuneration 

 being awarded him. 



The Council has still to lament that so little has 

 been done in the way of Lectures during the past 

 year ; the only paper read to the Society being by 

 Dr. Dowson, whose interesting treatise, on the sup- 

 posed insanity of Sir Isaac Newton, afforded much 

 gratification and instruction to the Members present. 



