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surface in the north-west corner, unfortunately broken in its 
recent transmission to or from the British Museum. After a few 
general remarks on the jinds the party were conducted to the 
wooden bridge erected over the end of the bath, from which the 
greatest portion of it could be seen, and its size, surrounding 
ambulatory, curious recumbent figure for the filling or emptying 
of the bath, and portions of roof composed of hollow tiles pointed 
out. Some few were found sufficiently courageous to descend to 
the level of the excavations, no easy matter, owing to the 
slushy state of the ground from the recent snowfall. Mr. 
Mann, the able superintendent of the works, now appeared and 
took the members into a room adjoining, where many objects 
found in such abundance during the excavations are placed for 
protection from the weather, and explained how the Roman 
arches were constructed with the hollow tiles, thus the 
afternoon was not entirely wasted. 
The New Year opened on January 10th, with a paper by Mr. 
GREEN on “The Cure by Touch, with a Notice of Cases in 
Somerset,” and was marked with his usual accuracy and power of 
research—Mr. Green’s facts coming from the fountain source, 
those documents in the Record Office requiring so much 
patience to decipher, but which well reward the few who 
have the leisure and take the trouble to investigate them. 
Rev. H. N. ELLAcoMBE read from ‘“ Macbeth iii. 4,” the 
dialogue between Malcolm, Macduff and the Doctor, referring to 
touching for the evil. He said he had listened to the paper with 
much interest, it was exactly the sort of paper they needed in that 
Club, it took an out-of-the-way subject and linked it in with the 
neighbourhood. The pamphlet was interesting because it was 
generally said that people came because of the coins. 
He produced a Prayer book dated 1709 containing the form of 
healing, which on examination of the body of the book was found 
to be older than the title page. He was anxious to know how 
the form of prayer got into the Prayer book, and if it was ever 
