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ranks gentlemen who had travelled in all parts of the world, and 

 while on the one hand they were able to delight the travellers 

 with home antiquities they had on the other hand the advantage 

 of their observations upon what was to be seen in distant lands. 

 He only regretted that they had not kept more records of what 

 they saw and heard. Field Clubs were of the highest value, and 

 had been springing up in different parts of England, but he 

 thought their " Proceedings" would bear favourable comparison 

 with those of any other club he knew, because in Somersetshire 

 they had a very large field to work in. He remarked he had that 

 day been down to the level of the Eoman city, and had walked 

 in its streets and seen the gutters and the steps as the Romans 

 had left them. He was able to produce a rubbing of an inscrip- 

 tion which had been found ; it was not the monument to Pompey 

 the Great, but to a member of his family, who had been attacked 

 with rheumatism perhaps while serving in our humid climate, 

 and coming to Bath for the v/aters had died here. Unfortunately 

 no more than the name was preserved, but from the shape it was 

 a funereal stone. [The rubbing was then handed round, and 

 bore the following words : — 



Q. POMPEIUS 

 A N I C E T U .S 

 GUI . . . ] 



From the character of the letters its date was shortly after the 

 death of Vespasian. This made the seventh inscription with the 

 name of Pompey which had been found in Britain. Referring to 

 the work of Dr. Hubner, he said the interest the Germans took 

 in our antiquities ought to stir up everyone to write down what 

 he knew. In conclusion he invited the Club to make an excursion 

 to AVedmore to see the ruins of King Alfred's palace. 



The health of Mr. Harold Lewis, the Assistant Hon. Secretary, 

 having been been proposed in complimentary terms, the latter 

 congratulated the Club on the marked success which had attended 

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