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of the Club, held at the Pump-Eoom Hotel, when 26 members 

 and friends sat down under the presidency of the Rev. H. N. 

 EUacombe. After the customary loyal toasts, the Chairman 

 proposed " Success to the Bath Field Club," and in doing so made 

 a few happy remarks on the position and the future of the Club. 

 It ought, he said, to be the recognised centre of information 

 respecting natural history and antiquities in and around Bath, so 

 that if any gentleman came to the city interested in a special 

 subject the Secretaries should be able to refer him to a member 

 who could tell him all he wanted to know. They had a list of the 

 fungi of the neighbourhood, which Mr. Broome had made, and 

 their President had corrected and enlarged Babington's flora of 

 Bath, which however was not yet complete, for in one walk he 

 had been fortunate enough to find near Mangotsfield station three 

 plants not included in the flora of Bath or Bristol. They ought 

 also to have lists of the butterflies, moths and beetles of the 

 district, of the birds and the fossils, and he believed there were 

 ffentlemen in the Club capable of doing the Avork. So with 

 regard to antiquities, they had visited every church and interesting 

 house in the neighbourhood of the city, but they had not gone, as 

 their Secretary wished them, note book in hand, and so the 

 "Proceedings" did not present an adequate record of what they 

 had done. In conclusion, he cautioned the members against the 

 common notion that because they belonged to a society they did 

 the work for which the society was organised. 



The Secretary (the Eev. H. H. Winwood), whose name was 

 coupled with the toast, expressed his thanks, and congratulated 

 the Club on having had a fairly successful year, and particularly 

 remarked the good attendance at the afternoon meetings for the 

 reading of papers. He hoped the monthly walks would be kept 

 up, and invited some member to come forward and take charge 

 of them. He also acknowledged the services of the Treasurer 

 (Col. St. Aubyn) and the Assistant-Secretary (Mr. Harold Lewis), 

 and conveyed an intimation of the regret which the chairman of 



