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very favourably reviewed. Probably nothing very new 
can be said upon the subject, but the author has made 
several criticisms, the justice of which has been admitted 
by his reviewers. The last number of our own Proceed- 
ings contains excellent matter also from the hands of some 
of our members, and may be said to be not the least 
interesting section of a series of Proceedings that has 
always held high rank among similar scientific publications. 
I think that members generally should know that 
the Council, during the past year, have made arrangements 
to exchange the Proceedings of the Club for those of the 
societies in adjoining counties. This should make the 
contents of our library more useful, both for the officers 
who have to prepare for our Field Meetings, and for 
members who may wish to know what is being done in 
the way of scientific investigation, whether archeological, 
or more purely naturalistic in character, in districts or 
counties bordering on our own. 
I come now to the recording of the places we visited in 
the summer, with the briefest of mention of some of the 
things we saw or did. 
To speak first of the meetings generally, and as a whole. 
They were, judging by the congratulations offered to 
myself (only, of course, as the representative of your 
Council) and to our secretary, upon whom lay the burden 
and heat of carrying out all the preliminary and actual 
arrangements of each day, considered most successful. 
They were more numerously attended than usual—at any 
rate during the last six or eight years of our Club’s history ; 
and I think they were more generally interesting to the 
members taking part in them. We were, without excep- 
tion, fortunate in our weather. And this was the more to 
be thankful for, inasmuch as on three out of the four 
excursions we had to take our lunch picnic fashion, not 
even sub tegmine fagt, but in most exposed places. 
