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quently been used for military purposes. A walk to Kelston Round 

 Hill, by the line of the Via Julia, through Weston, and a walk to 

 Keynsham in search of a reported recent Roman " find," are the 

 only remaining walks worth recording. The object of the first was 

 to trace the supposed camp on the top. A very fine view and a most 

 cutting wind were the only results of the ascent, as the traces of a 

 camp, if any ever existed, were not made out. The walk to Keyn- 

 sham was equally unsuccessful so far as the immediate object was 

 concerned ; but at Saltford an old barn close to the church, with 

 remains of a Norman window, indicating the site of a religious 

 establishment, well repaid inspection. 



The Summary of the year's Proceedings must not be concluded 

 without mention of the Public Lecture kindly given under the 

 auspices of the Club, by Mr. W. Lant Carpenter, on " Temperature 

 and Life in the Depths of the Ocean," being an account of the deep 

 sea dredging of H.M.'s " Porcupine" in the N. Atlantic during 

 the summer of 1869. The Lecture was illustrated profusely by 

 diagrams, and the attendance, though encouraging, was not com- 

 mensurate with the importance of the subject. 



H. H. WINWOOD, Hon. Sec. 



Address of the President after the Anniversary Dinner, Feb. 20, 1871. 



Gentlemen. 

 It being the practice of our energetic Secretary, in accordance 

 with the rules of our Club, to draw up each year a Summary of 

 its Proceedings, stating what the Club has done in the field, and 

 what papers have been read at our evening meetings, very little 

 remains for your President to say in his Anniversary Address beyond 

 what relates to the general circumstances and condition of the 

 Club in connection with the objects it has in view. And if the 

 Secretary dwells on its performances, and shows the public what 

 the Club has done to deserve the public esteem, it may perhaps be 

 allowable for the President to speak of its shortcomings, and to show 

 what it has not done which might have been expected from it. This 



