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more in the list of Members, I say to myself, where are the 

 many 1 What are they doing to promote the objects of this Club i 

 We can ill spare a man so active at home and abroad as our late 

 Member. Will no one come forAvard and take his place ? What 

 may not a man do for science, if he be only active and willing, in 

 these days of evolution, when the sciences have been so rolled 

 together that he who works for one, in some degree works for all. 



But I have one more thing to say respecting Broome. 1 stated 

 above that he had bequeathed his collection of Fungi to the 

 British Museum. I have now to add that he has bequeathed all 

 his other collections of plants, along with the main part of his 

 botanical library, coasisting of about 340 volumes, to the Bath 

 Eoyal Literary and Scientific Institution. When we consider 

 this last bequest, in connection with the Jenyns Library of 

 Natural History, and the Herbarium of British plants, already in 

 the Institution, I conceive that hardly any place in England, out- 

 side London and the Universities, Kew of course excepted, -will 

 lienceforth be more favourably circumstanced than Bath for the 

 study of botany. May there be at least one, if not more, of the 

 Members of our Club desirous of availing himself of these 

 resources, which promise so much assistance and success to those 

 who take up this subject in good earnest. 



But whether botanists or not, whatever be our work in the 

 study or the field, may we all copy often the indomitable zeal 

 and industry of our deceased friend. Let us take for our motto 

 that which was the guiding star of his whole life— "Work while 

 it is day." 



Traces of the Saxon period in Bath and the Neighbourhood. By 



Rev. Prebendary Earle, Professor of Anglo-Saxon. 



(Read December 8th, 1SS6.J 



The Rev. Prebendary Earle said, before I begin my subject I 



think I must say a word or two, in echo of the very kind and 



interesting remarks which our President has made upon Mr. 



