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Summary of Field Club Proceedings 1893—1894. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, 
The past year has not been uneventful in the Club’s annals. 
True, no great discoveries in the Natural History, Botany, 
Geology or Archxology of our neighbourhood are to be recorded, 
but valuable and considerable information in all and each of these 
sciences has been acquired by the members in the Excursions and 
at the reading of papers, with the subsequent discussions and 
exhibition of specimens and objects of interest. 
The Excursions were eight in number, and well attended 
whenever they were least instructive. 
All on the year’s Programme were carried out except the Bye- 
Excursion to the Earl of Pembroke’s Castle of Wilton. An extra 
Excursion, however, to Chapel Plaster and Ditteridge was arranged 
under the conduct of Mr. Thomas Browne, under whose archi- 
tectural surveillance the ancient shrine, once a chapel for the 
pilgrims on their way to the Abbey of Glastonbury, has again 
after many years of desecration been restored to ecclesiastical uses. 
Mr. Browne’s paper read to the Members of the Club in this. 
ancient Chapel is printed at page 9 of these Proceedings. 
The Excursions here follow in their regular order :— 
Shapwick Moor and Meare.—The excursions of the year were 
inaugurated on Tuesday, April 18th, by a party of 17 members 
of the Field Club taking train by the Midland line to Shapwick, 
in the peat bogs, which extend from Glastonbury to the sea. 
The object of the excursion was primarily to explore the botany 
and natural history of the district, but owing to the prolonged 
drought and the backward condition of vegetation, very few 
plants ‘peculiar to the heathy bogs rewarded the search of the 
party. Shapwick and Edington heaths are considered the 
paradise of botanists, and occasionally some of the rarest of the 
rare flora reward the diligent searchers for botanical treasures. 
