369 
On February Ist, 1893, a paper was read before the Club by 
the Rev. H. H. Winwood, vice-president, on certain deep well 
borings in Somerset, and Col. J. T. Chandler presented an 
ancient deed lent to him by Major C. H. Simpson, which records 
the terms by which the British Crown acquired the regal rights 
of the Dukes of Atholl over the Isle of Man. The first paper is 
printed at page 335, the second as Appendix II to this Summary. 
The Club starts on a new year with a roll of members number- 
ing well nigh the maximum of 100 whereat the bye-laws limit 
the number of members. The past year’s obituary of members 
has been very small. Only two have departed to the Great 
Majority, the Rev. Hayes Robinson and Major J. Wedgwood 
Yeeles, the former a member of the Field Club since 1883, the 
latter since 1866. Amongst the large number of gentlemen, now 
on the Club’s register it is to be hoped many will during this year 
make their researches in their various sciences and favourite 
pursuits with such success that more papers may be forthcoming 
at the close of the excursion season on interesting discoveries, 
and the particular objects of the Club’s formation, the Natural 
History, Geology, Botany, and Antiquities of the neighbourhood. 
WALTER W. MARTIN, 
Hon. See. 
APPENDIX I. 
An Expedition to the Angara River in Siberia, by Robert Runeberg, 
son of the Great Finnish Poet, Johan Ludwig Runeberg, translated 
from the Swedish. 
(Read. March 16th, 1892.) 
On the 24th June, 1883, Runeberg left St. Petersburg commis- 
sioned by Mr. A. Siberiakov, to visit the Angara River and 
investigate its navigability. 
