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see their President able to appear again amongst them and read 
an elaborate paper on the “ Results of Ten Years’ Meteorological 
Observations at the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution ” (vide 
p. 205). In the discussion which followed, the speakers alluded 
to the amount of labour inyolved in working out these results 
which they considered of great value in determining the climate 
of Bath, its temperature and rain-fall. 
The evening of December 9th was given to an “ Excursion 
Talk: A Story of Kelston House” by Dr. Hunter, who, in his 
communication, attempted to represent the thoughts and conver- 
sation of a party of the Club on a visit to Kelston. As may be 
expected, the brilliant and pleasant Sir John Harington was a 
principal figure of the evening. The writer quoted largely from 
the Orlando Furioso, and comparing some of the passages with the 
Italian thought that Harington had done bare justice in some 
places to the astonishing vigour of the original, but had neverthe- 
less produced an unmistakeable reflection of Ariosto. 
In the advertisement to the reader, prefixed to Harington’s 
Orlando, the author says, “As for the pictures, they are all cut in 
brass and most of them by the best workmen in that kind that 
have been in the land this many years; yet I will not praise 
them too much, because I gave direction for their making, and in 
regard thereof I may be thought partial.” And there is more to 
the same purpose. Yet it would be an error to suppose that the 
designs are original ; they are Porro’s, and were in use in Italy at 
least so late as 1730, the date of the great Venice folio. 
The Nugw Antique and the epigrams afforded some character- 
istic anecdotes, choice being made of such as had a local colour or 
were guides to the genius of the man, and attention was asked to 
the antitheses and puns which were stuffed in wherever room 
could be found for them, whether in a sermon or an epigram. 
Dr. Hunter concluded by congratulating those present that 
they lived in an old country where nearly every parish might 
be found to yield some curious story, and urged the new members 
