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to rivers in this locality, but the village itself has preserved the 
ancient name of the river, and the doubt about the origin of the 
name of “ Wrington” is now set at rest. 
This is an instance of the value of preserving ancient documents. 
Should more light dawn upon my endeavour to identify ancient 
boundaries, and to trace the gradual change of the nemenclature 
of places, I shall hope to lay the result in due course before the 
Club, more particularly if any thing of historical value should 
appear ; in the mean time it is encouraging to find that where an 
effort is made to elucidate parochial history, discoveries in 
libraries and public depositories tend to encourage and reward the 
endeavour. 
Summary of Proceedings for the Year 1875-6. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, 
The records of the Club ought to begin with an account of 
our Anniversary dinner ; but, inasmuch as the 18th of February 
again passed away without the usual celebration of our nativity, I 
have only to note the fact of an unsuccessful attempt having been 
made by the Committee to arrange a dinner later in the season. 
Should, however, a summary of our doings during the next year 
be written, it is hoped that this omission will be repaired, and 
that the occurrence of a successful dinner held this evening will 
appear therein. 
It is not given to every Secretary to congratulate his Club upon 
some important discovery in Natural History, Geology, or 
Archeology, your Secretary then is no worse off than others in 
this respect ; he cannot congratulate the Club upon its attendance 
at the evening meetings. By a resolution passed at the last 
Anniversary a grant of £3 was made for tea during the evening ; 
this was supplemented by an equal grant from the Literary 
and Philosophical Association, as a slight acknowledgement of the 
