Summary of Proceedings for the year 1884-885. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, 
An anniversary dinner did not inaugurate the proceed- 
ings of the past year ; owing probably to the fact that the usua 
place of meeting was not available, only three names besides those 
of the officers were sent in—the Committee were, therefore, obliged 
to give it up by the pure force of circumstances. 
AFTERNOON MEETINGS, 
These have been very fairly attended throughout the season. 
The first was held on March 12th, when Canon Ellacombe pre- 
sided, and Mr. Allon Tucker read a paper on the “‘ Remains at 
Stanton Drew” (vide p. 257). Prefacing his paper by remarking 
that so much had been written on the subject that there was little 
room for originality, he, in the first place, touched on the meaning 
of the word Stanton, of which there were many examples in the 
manor of Keynsham, and then of the other word Drew, which of 
course had no reference to the so-called Druids, but was of quite 
a different origin. He then gave a description of the stone 
circles, and the various other stones scattered about—their 
position, size, and composition—and concluded by bringing in 
review the various suggestions of the purposes for which they 
were erected. 
Mr. Dymonp, who had written papers for the Proceedings of 
the Somerset Archeological Society and the Archeological Asso- 
ciation on these circles, and wag called on by the Chairman, 
to give his views as one well versed in the subject, said that he 
quite corroborated Mr. Tucker’s view that the Cove had never 
been a Dolmen, and that the third stone now fallen could never 
have been a top-covering stone. He considered that much less 
change than has been commonly supposed had occurred in the 
position of the stones since Aubrey’s time, and that he had, with 
