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of Atkins’s, a modification of Clark’s system, now adopted by the 
Southampton Water Company, as the best in his opinion. This 
paper, which was of considerable interest in connection with our 
own water supply, caused an interesting discussion, in which the 
Chairman, Capt. Lysaght, Mr. Winwood, and others took part. 
Mr. SKRINE mentioned a curious fact in connection with a fish- 
pond on his property. After several vain attempts to keep gold 
and silver fish therein, owing to the extreme hardness of the 
water, it occurred to him to throw in a quantity of Fuller’s-earth. 
This had the desired effect, the fish flourished, so did the weeds, 
which had before died off. He found, too, that the cattle liked 
the water better that burst forth from the top zone of the hills in 
the region of the Fuller’s-earth. Was this owing to the water 
being softer? If so, might not Fuller’s-earth be applied to soften 
the water for domestic purposes? Mr. Skrine also spoke of the 
advantage of storage of water on high ground. 
The SECRETARY said the club was indebted for this valuable 
paper to observations made during some walks of the club last 
autumn, when, under Mr. Alfred Mitchell’s guidance, they in- 
spected ‘the Corporation Waterworks at Monkswood and 8. 
Catherine’s valley ; and he wished to take this opportunity of 
urging the members and others to turn their attention to the 
water supply of Bath. The city had by the recent rains, which 
had only temporarily supplied the land springs (ic. the surface 
springs) alluded to in the paper, escaped a calamity—but a great 
inconvenience from the short supply many had not escaped. The 
deep-seated springs which had been so seriously affected by the 
smallness of the rainfall during the year just passed, had hardly 
been touched as yet, and unless the deficiency should be supplied 
by the rainfall during the coming winter months he feared the 
water supply would be still more inadequate for the wants of the 
city. The storage capacity at Monkswood and elsewhere was, in 
his opinion, not large enough to husband the excellent water 
which was constantly running to waste. There was another point 
