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counsel and advice materially assists in the advancement of 

 Science, and the forwarding those objects for which the Club 

 was constituted. 



The committee of six members appointed as your representa- 

 tives on the Local Committee of the B.A. did good work, and, 

 without particularising names, it is but right to say that the 

 active share taken by two or three conduced not a little towards 

 facilitating the arrangements for the reception of the guests, and 

 contributed much to render the meeting the success it was. One 

 of the results of the recent meeting was the appointment of a 

 committee for the purpose of placing a tablet on the house in 

 Bath Avhere William Smith, the "Father of English Geology," 

 lived longest. After making every possible enquiry the committee 

 found such an uncertainty attaching to the exact house (at least 

 two or three localities having been suggested) that they decided 

 to recommend that the memorial should be placed on the house 

 called Tucking Mill at Midford, where, without doubt, he resided 

 for many years during his construction of the Somerset Coal 

 Canal, and the members at their Anniversary meeting, held on 

 February 18th, decided that the memorial tablet should be 

 erected there at the cost of the Club. 



The afternoon meetings for the session began on Wednesday, 

 ]8th of December, when a paper on "Church Doorways" was 

 read by the Rev. Reginald A. Cayley. His subject was divided 

 into five heads, viz. — 1, Secular Minsters ; 2, Augustinian ditto ; 

 3, Benedictine Abbeys; 4, Cistercian Abbeys; 5, Parish Churches. 

 These were treated under the several divisions of Western, 

 Lateral, Transeptal and Exceptional positions ; in conclusion he 

 attempted to apply the foregoing considerations to elucidate the 

 original design of the Bath Abbey Church (Fide p. 363 J. 



Canon Ellaoombe, who took the chair, expressed the pleasure 

 with which he had listened to Mr. Cayley's paper, and said that 

 it was just the sort of treatment of an out-of-the-way subject, 

 applied to details close at home, so useful to a Club like theirs. 



