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wanting a few weeks’ sunshine to gladden the farmers’ heart, 
Devizes was reached about fourp.m. The museum there was visited, 
and the remaining time spent over the admirably-arranged Stour- 
head collection of ancient British pottery, &c., which presents a 
somewhat different aspezt to what it did when the Club last saw 
it uncared for in the vaults of Stourton. The needs of refresh- 
ment being somewhat urgent, a glance merely at the collection of 
local fossils was possible, and the members, after dinner at one of 
the hostelries, returned by 6.45 train to Bath, the day, fortunately 
for them, being perfect throughout. 
BYE EXCURSIONS 
Were fixed for Boscastle and Tintagel Mines on 6th of June, 
Windsor Castle July 4th, and Woodspring Priory October 
10th. Of the latter only is the Secretary able to give any 
account. Some four or five members are reported to have gone to. 
Boscastle and Tintagel, but whether they have returned to Bath 
from those distant parts record fails to show.* Windsor Castle 
was not visited owing to the public being excluded at the time 
fixed for the visit. But for Woodspring Priory and Swallow Cliff 
about 21 members assembled at the station and took train for 
Weston-super-Mare. Thence a dreary, misty ride through Worle 
and over the alluvial flats brought them to the Priory. After a 
circumambulation of the buildings through wet orchard grass, a 
muster was made in the Refectory. Here a concise and clearly 
written paper, with a plan of the structure by Mr. R. W. Paul, was 
read by Mr. J. Allon Tucker ; the chief point seemed to be that 
the so-called Refectory was not the Refectory but the hall. Some 
remarks were made by the Vice-President (the Rey. Preb. Scearth) 
* Since writing the above the Secretary has received an admirable account of 
this excursion from General Brooke, together with pen-and-ink sketches in 
illustration. Vide p. 138. 
