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blue lias, and that they were occasionally able to use it. It was 
very good stone, but could not at all compete with the German 
stone, because the surface was not so good, and it was found 
impossible to get pieces of sufficient size. Mr. Bate remarked 
that Mr. Green did not seem to know anything of Hutchinson, 
who he mentioned. There was, he said, a remarkable miniature, 
which the artist had executed, of Rossini. The original still 
existed, and was in the possession of a gentleman living in Queen 
square. Mr. Shum adverted with satisfaction to the preservation 
of Barker’s stones of rustic figures, Their last disposal was by 
public auction, when they were purchased by Mr. T. W. Gibbs, 
_ who was now, he regretted to say, extremely ill. The collection 
was a very fine one. He believed that partly the reason why 
_ Redman selected Bath was that Bath was so much before other 
_ places in the matter of engraving. Mr. Egbert Lewis, with 
reference to the Chairman’s remarks as to the lias from the 
neighbourhood of Bath, said he did not think it had ever been 
found satisfactory for lithographing, although experiments had 
been made with it. The Rev. H. H. Winwood said it had been 
_ stated on authority that Corston stone had been used for 
_ lithographic purposes. The Chairman moved a vote of thanks to 
the lecturer, who briefly replied, remarking that lias had been 
tried for lithography, but it was not successful. The great 
difficulty was to get the stones large enough. When he came to 
Bath he intended to have gone to Corston, and having got a piece 
polished down, to have asked the lecturer to have executed a 
drawing, so that they might see for themselves how the stone 
worked. The weather had, however, been so unfavourable that 
he had not been able to go. 
At the third afternoon meeting on Wednesday, January 31st, 
_ the Rev. H. H. Winwood read a paper containing some very 
_ interesting reminiscences of the Club’s late president and 
founder, the Rev. Leonard Blomefield, M.A. The meeting was 
held in the conversation room at the Literary Institution, under 
