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men in advance of their age, whose discoveries, when proclaimed to 

 the world, cause the greater sensation, in proportion to their 

 greater disagreement with views ordinarily entertained. Yet 

 nothing of this kind, it was said, ought to alarm us. If the new 

 thing is not true it will speedily be set aside and forgotten. If it 

 be, instead of vainly attempting to overturn it we ought rather to 

 welcome it. It may seem strange at first, but its strangeness will 

 gradually wear off; it will become more and more acceptable, as 

 we give it further consideration ; it will in the end, we may rest 

 assured, be assented to by all, and, what is more, found to har- 

 monise with all other truths, even those which, in our first haste, 

 we thought to be in direct opposition to its teachings. 



On Wednesday, Feb. 9th, the Rev. H. N. EUacombe continued 

 the subject of his paper read during the last session on the 

 " Common English Names of Plants," dilating on their History, 

 Etymology, and Poetry ; this, together with Mr. Broome's " Notes 

 on some of the Fungi in the Neighbourhood of Bath," will appear 

 in the forthcoming number of the Proceedings. Mr. Broome's 

 remarks were of a highly scientific nature, and illustrated by 

 several very good drawings of the different genera, and by some 

 well preserved specimens. 



The Vice-President (the Rev. Prebendary Scarth), then read a 

 paper (vide j). 112 supra.) " On a pair of Celtic Spoons found near 

 Weston, Bath, in 1866." These bronze spoons, about 4f inches 

 long, and 2\ inches diameter of bowls, were found in the bank of 

 a small brook not far from the village of Weston, at a depth of 

 7 feet below the surface. 



Mr. Irvine was then called on to give his notes on " The Saxon 

 Chapel at Bradford and its Sculptures." By the aid of six 

 carefully drawn and coloured drawings he first described the 

 building as it stands, now adapted for the Free School. Its history, 

 taken from the Rev. W. H. Jones's account of the parish of Bradford- 

 on-Avon in the " Wilts Archaeological Journal," vol. v., p. 247, was 

 next given. The first record that we have dates back to 705, when 

 we read of a monastery exisiting at Bradford, of which Aldhelm 

 was Abbot. Aldhelm, afterwards Bishop of Sherbourn, by per- 

 mission of King Ina, built the monasteries of Malmesbury, Frome, 



