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of the latter and their lack of interest when such matter is 
brought before them; thereby acting as a discouragement, and 
being felt as somewhat uncomplimentary by those who have 
taken the trouble to prepare those communications. 
The Club, however, maintains its numbers and its sociability on 
certain occasions, as evidenced by the attendance at the Anni- 
versary Dinners. The last one was held on Saturday, February 
18th—on the eve of the regular Anniversary Meeting in the 
morning at the Literary and Scientific Institution—at the Grand 
Hotel, when Mr. Skrine took the chair, and in proposing “ Pros- 
perity to the Club,” remarked that twenty-seven years had passed 
since its first foundation, and thus it had more than doubled the 
time allotted to clubs in Bath—ten years being their appointed 
time, then death. What had given our Club its vitality? Might 
not this be attributed to what may be called its cohesiveness and 
its activity, that is to say the way in which the members held 
together and the way in which they carried on the work of the 
Club? Without this, decadence would speedily set in, to maintain 
this young blood was required. If the older members would find 
young men and interest them in their particular subjects of 
inquiry they might give the Club perpetual youth. After 
expressing his regret that their venerable President (the Rev. 
L. Blomefield) could no longer join in these gatherings, he 
proposed the health of the Hon. Secretaries (the Rev. H. H. 
Winwood and Mr. Harold Lewis) and of the Treasurer (Col. St. 
Aubyn) absent through ill-health. 
AFTERNOON MEETINGS. 
On March 15th there was a fair attendance of members to hear 
Dr. Brrp and Mr. Sxrine. The former led off with remarks 
upon “ Wood's History of Bath, and the names of places men- 
tioned in that work.” Published in the year 1749, he said, it 
contained much interesting and curious matter. No legend or 
