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stones were also found with cramp holes, and from the fact that 

 there was no stain in the holes, Mr. Irvine inferred that these large 

 blocks had been clamped together either with lead or bronze. At 

 the west end of the Grand Pump Room at a depth of at least 1 7ft. 

 6in. below the top of plinth, pieces of glass showing the edge of 

 the original flat plate had been dug up which he considered to be 

 undoubtedly Roman, and had been used as window glass. The 

 fragments of cornice were in the vestibule of the Institution. 



Mr. Josiah Goodwin exhibited an original letter of Anstey, the 

 author of the " Bath Guide," respecting the disposal of his library ; 

 also an autograph letter of Ralph Allen of some interest in an 

 educational point of view, and he gave a short account of a 

 naturalist but little known in Bath — Captain Williamson — who 

 was an active member of the West of England Agricultural Society, 

 and in the year 180.8 attempted to establish an Agi-icultural College 

 in this neighbourhood. A book of Field Sports, illustrated by 

 numerous spirited engravings, and oiae on Agricultural Mechanism, 

 showed that he deserved to rank amongst the worthies of Bath. 



On Wednesday evening, January 12, the President of the 

 Club (the Rev. L. Jenyns) opened the first evening meeting 

 of the season (1870) with a short address in which he set 

 forth the importance of science, and the utility of bodies 

 associated together for scientific research. He remarked that with 

 some persons there was a prejudice against science, as if it were 

 opposed to other branches of knowledge judged to be of more 

 importance. This, however, he said was not the case. All 

 knowledge — all at least that relates to this lower world — rests 

 upon our experiences, our observations, and the deductions we 

 make from them. " Science," it has been well remarked, " is simply 

 a higher development of common knowledge ;" and we can draw no 

 boundary line between these facts of science, so plain and obvious 

 as to be known to all of us from our earliest years — such as that 

 the length of the day varies with the seasons, that water exposed 

 to cold freezes, exposed to sufficient heat passes into steam, &c. — 

 and those higher truths which are the aim and object of regular 

 scientific men. If we will have nothing to do with the latter, we 

 must equally give up the former, though guiding our heads and 



