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warm, and the Mauduit Chapel to the south of the chancel has a 
second altar, and is evidently used for the week-day services. 
Leaving this church a visit was paid to the magnificent public 
baths, a present to the town of Westbury in the Jubilee year of 
Her Majesty the Queen from the late member for the borough, 
Mr. Laverton. The swimming bath is large and well fitted with 
dressing cabinets, seats and a gallery for spectators. The water, 
evidently derived from the neighbouring chalkdown, is of an 
exquisite azure hue, and is kept at 72 deg. F. Having seen all 
that deserves being seen in Westbury the Field Club returned to 
the saloon carriage kindly placed at their disposal by the G.W.R. 
Company, and found themselves safely back in Bath after a 
bitterly cold day, but very instructive excursion. 
The Excursions of the year having thus been duly concluded, 
the members of the Field Club had the great pleasure of hearing 
that their venerable founder and President, the Rev. Leonard 
Blomefield, M.A., F.G.S., F.L.S., had received from the Linnean 
Society a congratulatory address on his attaining the 70th 
anniversary of his election as a member, and a unanimous wish 
was expressed by the members of the Field Club to have the said 
address and their respected President's reply to the same recorded 
in their Proceedings. The consent of the Rev. L. Blomefield 
having been graciously accorded, the address and reply here 
follow :— 
TO 
THE Rev. LEONARD BLOMEFIELD, 
of 
Belmont, Bath, M.A., F.L.S. 
We, the undersigned Fellows of the Linnean Society of 
London, on the 17th day of November, 1892, in General Meeting 
assembled, desire to congratulate you as “The Father of the 
Society” on the occasion of your attaining the Seventieth 
Anniversary of your Election, an event unprecedented in the 
