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and a beautiful specimen of rhynchonella obsoleta was obtained 
The weather now became somewhat lowering, so the members 
made a short cut across the fields to the Gloucester road and the 
carriages soon brought them safely to Bath. 
This concluded the excursions of the year, two in the original 
programme to Shepherd’s Shore and Calne, and to Littlecote in 
Berkshire having necessarily been given up. 
Subsequently on December 14th a small party of members of 
the Club were invited to mount Bathwick Hill and view the 
pictures of Col. H. C. B. Tanner, at Fiesole, photographs of which 
afterwards, by the courtesy of the Bath Literary and Philosophical 
Association extending an invitation to all members of the Field 
_ Club were viewed by limelight at the Royal Institution. The 
pictures mostly in sepia and white were painted by the Colonel 
from his own sketches taken in his travels when conducting the 
trigonometrical survey of the Himalaya range for the Indian 
Government. He was able to bring to bear an experience of 
40 years in describing the many snow-capped mountains, cascades, 
glaciers, and other characteristic scenery of this part of the world. 
At the close of the year under the direction of Mr. W. H. 
Barlow, a small party of members proceeded to view an old house 
in Claverton Street, Lyncombe, which bears the date 1704 on 
its fagade. He has supplied the following notes. 
The old house in Claverton street is called on Wood’s Map of Bath 
(dated 1735) “The Cold Bath,” and in his history of the baths the 
following account appears, describing the position of the house 
accurately :—“ The Cold Bath, being the last natural bath of the city, 
the cistern is supplied by a spring of water which issued out of the 
ground at a place where the rays of the sun could never reach till 
after surmounting the Equinox. This bath is made in a house 
erected on the beach, by the side of the river Avon, and that house 
standing about 120 yards eastward from the city bounds, and at the 
South end of the bridge. It belongs to a private person, who on that 
account keeps the bath in it, in very good order, and treats the 
bathers with respect and civility.”* 
*Wood’s description of Bath, vol. ii, p. 268, 
