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I spoke of Ford and Tayler as the two last miniature painters 
of Bath ; this is, of course, scarcely correct, for, as we all know, 
the city boasts more than one living practitioner of the art, and 
though to speak critically of their work would be beyond the 
province of this paper, which deals entirely with byegone artists. 
I can allude, in closing, to the delicacy and daintiness of the work 
of the ladies who are the living representatives of a long and able 
line of miniaturists. 
I have come to the end of my paper, and I must leave the 
examples on the table to speak for themselves. I have tried to 
give you the cream of the knowledge that I have collected, 
omitting uninteresting details, and I shall be very glad to receive 
even the smallest scrap of additional information ; every detail 
fits sooner or later into its place, and often an unconsidered trifle 
puts one on the track of fuller particulars. This paper can in no 
way be considered as final, it is admittedly tentative and 
incomplete, and I hope that there may be many residents in the 
city who will lend me a helping hand towards perfecting the 
collection I have got together in this small, unworked, and most 
interesting section of the wide subject of Bath art. 
The Great Frost of 1895. By the Rev. CANON ELLACOMBE, M.A., 
President. 
(Read 18th December, 1895.) 
It is a common saying that Englishmen are never tired of 
talking about the weather. I must hope that the members of 
the Field Club are not easily tired in listening to talks about the 
weather, for this is the third year in which I have spoken about 
the weather of the preceding twelve months and its effect upon 
the garden. Had the weather of the twelve months beginning 
