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wards he proposed that we should take a similar walk every 
week, making the start from each other’s house in turn. It was 
not long before two or three friends asked to join us in our 
expeditions, and in time others followed ; leading, in 1855, to the 
establishment of a Field Club for the investigation of the Natural 
History of the neighbourhood of Bath. They were pleased, on 
the occasion, to appoint me to be President ; and I trust that the 
papers which I have read to the Club, and the addresses that— 
from time to time—I have made to its members (most of which 
will be found in its printed Proceedings) will serve to show the 
interest I have always taken in it. The Club has done well up 
to the present time. Its future, Gentlemen, is in your hands; 
may there be no falling off in the number of its members, nor 
abatement of the work for which it was originated in the first 
instance. I pray for its continued success and industry in all 
that it undertakes. There are some things which man is better 
able to effect in union with others than when left to himself. I 
pray for a blessing on your combined labours. Hold all well 
together. Encourage one another. Farewell / 
LEONARD BLOMEFIELD, late JENYNS. 
Aged 93. 
SUGGESTIONS FOR SOME BOTANICAL 
WALKS (FIELD CLUB), 
Short or Moderate, 
(1) Enter wood on Claverton Down by Sham Castle, and 
follow up the long branch of it leading down towards Bathampton ; 
look on right side for the Deadly Nightshade (Atropa Belladonna). 
Does it still grow there ?* Fl. (June to August). 
* Keep notes of the plants found, as also of those no longer to be met with 
where they grew formerly. 
