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The Vice-President read extracts from a copy of the original 

 contract containing articles of indenture for the erection of the 

 tomb of James Montague, Bishop of Winchester, in the Abbey 

 of Bath, Nov. 25th, 1618; from which it appears that an 

 agreement was entered into between Sir Charles Montague, of 

 London, Knight, and William Cuer, freemason, of London, 

 and Nicholas Johnson, carver, of Southwark, whereby the 

 latter agreed " of their own proper costs and charges to make, 

 compose, frame, erect, set up, perfect, and finish one tombe or 

 monument of alabaster and touchstone with armes to be 

 carved and engraven, and to be set in their proper colours 

 and mettalls," in memory of " the late right reverend ffather 

 in God James Montague, late bishop of Winchester and 

 prelate of the most noble order of the garter, deceased." 

 Minute details as to the size, ornamentation, and material are 

 then given, and the whole to be "saffelie conveyed to the citie 

 of Bath and in the cathedral church there — transported, 

 erected, set up, and finished in consideration of the full some 

 of two hundreth pounds of current money of England." The 

 Vice-President also described the curious construction of the 

 walls of Borough or Bower Camp in Leigh Woods, near 

 Clifton, and compared them with the petrified forts in Scotland- 

 (Vide " Walks," Tuesday, 31st, 1868.) 



Amongst the articles exhibited was a silver medal belong- 

 ing to the Institution, formerly the property of David Garrick, 

 and worn by him at the Shakespeare jubilee in 1769 ; some 

 glass slides with slug's teeth, by which the different genera 

 are distinguished ; several very fine Pontifical medals and a 

 one hundred franc gold piece, kindly lent by Mv. Welwood ; 

 and a modern blowpipe, by which a dart could be expelled 

 with great force. 



The Evening Meetings of the present Season 1868-9 were 

 inaugurated by a paper from the President " On Wind and 

 Weather in connection with the Summer of 1868." As this 



