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boundaries have been enclosed in questionable taste. After an 

 indifFereut lunch at the Hunters' Arms the walk was continued to 

 the head of Pope's valley, leading down to St. Catherine's, rendered 

 more beautiful than usual by the lovely autumnal tints of the 

 maple and other trees. Many more walks have been taken, but 

 nothing worthy of note has been made of them, and here your 

 Secretary would express an earnest wish, that members would 

 employ pen and pencil more freely and send in to him from time to 

 time any record of noticeable objects they meet with in their walks. 



Mr. Chas. Moore and your Secretary were appointed delegates 

 to represent the views of the Club before the Sub-Committee of 

 Section C of the British Association, which was summoned by Sir 

 Walter Elliot for the purpose of discussing the question of the 

 better combining and utilizing the valuable works done by Local 

 Scientific Societies. Your Secretary attended, together with various 

 representatives of other Provincial Field Clubs, and after some 

 discussion as to the details of co-operation, a sub-Committee was 

 appointed for the purpose of considering a plan of organization. 



In conclusion allow me to congratulate you on the steady 

 increase of your members, the limit of seventy-five has now been 

 extended to one hundred. As you, Sir, have before said, it behoves 

 us to give a good account of our work if we wish to maintain our 

 position amongst Scientific Societies. There is much yet to be 

 done. New sections of the rocks whenever opened to be carefully 

 examined ; introductions of new plants to be looked out for and 

 noted ; trees remarkable for size, age, historic, or any other 

 association to be described, and if possible, photographed. The 

 time of the coming and going of the migratory biids to be 

 observed. Unpublished monumental inscriptions in churches about 

 to undergo a restoration destructive to these memorials to be 

 copied ; little out of the way bits of architectural detail to be 

 preserved, so far, as pencil and brush can do so from entire 

 obliteration in this rapid age — in short, how innumerable are the 

 objects which occur worthy the attention of an intelligent mind, 

 and presenting themselves to the members of the Bath Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Field Club in their walks and excursions 

 through this beautiful neighbourhood ! 



H. H. WiNWOOD. Hon. Sec. 



