RULES 
OF THE 
| BATH NATURAL HISTORY AND 
ANTIQUARIAN FIELD CLUB. 
18938. 
1.—The Club shall be called ‘‘ THE BATH NATURAL HISTORY AND 
ANTIQUARIAN FIELD CLUB,” and shall consist (for the present) 
of not more than One Hundred Members. 
2.—The object of the Club shall be to make Excursions around Bath, with the 
view of investigating the Natural History, Geology, and Antiquities of 
the neighbourhood. 
3.—The Founder of the Club, the Rey. Leonarp BLoMEFIELD, shall be con- 
sidered the permanent President; and one or two Vice-Presidents, a 
Chairman, Secretary, Librarian and Treasurer, shall be chosen each year 
from among the Members at the Anniversary Meeting on the 18th 
February. 
4,—The Committee shall consist of the past and present officers, and three other 
Members of the Club (the latter to be elected annually). whose business 
it shall be to consider and determine all matters connected wlth tinance, 
and printing the Proceedings of the Club, or papers read at any of its 
meetings ; or any business requiring consideration. 
5,—Quarterly Meetings for the election of Members, and for other business, 
shall take place on the First Ywesday in April, July, October, and 
‘ January. 
6.—There shall be Four Excursions during the year, to be fixed at the Anniver- 
sary Meeting, subject to alterations at any previous Quarterly Meeting, 
if agreed to by all the Members present—six to form a quorum. A list 
of such Excursions, with the respective places of meeting shall be sus- 
pended in the Vestibule of the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution. 
Such Members as feel disposed shall also meet every J uesday, at the 
Institution, at 10.30 a.m. 
7.—The hour of meeting shall not be changed, except for the convenience of 
taking particular trains, when it is arranged to go by rail to any place; 
in which case the altered time shall be posted at the Institution not later 
than Twelve o’Clock on the Tuesday previous. 
8.—In arranging the Excursions, due regard shall be paid to Natural History, 
Geology, and Antiquities, so as to secure an equal share of attention to 
each subject ; with this view, when the same Excursion does not include 
them all, they shall, as far as practicable, be taken in turn. 
9 —Special Meetings shall he appointed for the Reading of Papers or Exhibition 
of Specimens, notice heing given to the Secretary at, or previous to, any 
one of the Quarterly Meetings, by Members having such communications 
to make to the Club. 
