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24 members were present, and Mr. Bate, the Curator of the 
Holburne Museum, was a visitor. Previous to the paper the Rev. 
Wynter T. Blathwayt exhibited to the members a brazen Mace, 
the Official Wand of the High Bailiff and Feoffees of the parish 
of Marshfield. It is surmounted by a moveable Crown and bears 
the letter C.R., showing it to be of the date of Charles I. with the 
Royal Arms. On the base of the staff nearly effaced are the arms 
of the Gosslet family, most likely the donors. The chairman, at 
the conclusion of the paper, said it was always a pleasure to hear 
Mr. Green, and it was impossible for them to do so without 
learning something. They were all sensible of the very clever 
way in which he managed sometimes to connect his subjects with 
the objects of the Field Club. He had done so that afternoon by 
drawing attention to the connection of lithography with the city 
of Bath. He had certainly shown a very strong connection 
between them, and he, as chairman, could add little or nothing to 
what he had said. Mr. Green had remarked that there had been 
an inquiry—by Government he presumed—as to there being any 
English stone capable of supplanting German stone for the 
purposes of lithography, and that to make that search more active 
they put a heavy duty upon foreign stone. It was said that there 
was no English stone. Then he came back to speak of the white 
lias at Corston, and it was with reference to the stone of this 
neighbourhood that he (the Chairman) wished to make a few 
remarks. As they went from Bath to Bristol by the Great 
Western Railway they would recollect that remarkable bed of lias 
which had been cut through just beyond Saltford. When that 
railway was being made he recollected a conversation between his 
father, Mr. Freer, one of the engineers of the line, and a member 
of the family of Pocock, who were at that time rather an important 
body of lithographers in Bristol. Their conversation was as to 
the use of this stone, which they were then cutting through, for 
the purpose of lithography, and if his memory served him rightly, 
Pocock said they did occasionally get Saltford stone—that is the 
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