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was held at which the question of admission of ladies, relatives 
of members, was considered ; 12 members attended, and it 
was decided to test the opinion of the Club on the matter by 
postcard; as a result of the decisive majority in favour of 
the change, Rule 18 was agreed to at a meeting on June 4, 
when 12 members were present; the rule as passed was: 
“‘ Ladies, if relatives of members, may be admitted to member- 
ship on payment of Five Shillings a year.” 
As a sequel to this eight ladies were elected at the meeting 
on July 7. 
It had long been felt that the non-admission of ladies to our 
excursions prevented new members from joining the Club, 
and that their absence was one reason of the difficulty of 
organizing successful expeditions into the neighbourhood. 
Very many of our excursions in recent years have had to be 
abandoned because of so few names having been sent in. 
The Tracy Park finds, which were dug up in October, 1865, 
and which have been in the Museum since then, were handed 
over to the Museum authorities to be added to their other 
collections of local relics: the description of these Tracy finds 
is to be found in the Proceedings of the Field Club for 1868, 
a lecture having been given on them by the Rev. H. M. Scarth. 
The Congress of Archzological Societies have issued a 
Paper on ‘‘ Directions for recording Churchyard and Church 
Inscriptions.” Work in this direction has been done by one 
of our members. 
We have to record the losses by death during the period 
under survey of the Rev. P. E. George and Mr. Braikenridge. 
EXCURSIONS. 
Malmesbury, April 23rd, 1907.—The first excursion of the 
season. As Malmesbury has been described more than 
once in former Transactions, no detailed description is neces- 
sary, but a few historical notes may be acceptable. 
An old chronicler states that there was some kind of strong 
place where Malmesbury now stands, 596 years B.c. ; that it 
was built by a British King, and was called Caer-Bladon, or 
the fortress of Bladon. There is no reason why this should 
not be true, and the river seems to have been formerly called 
Bladon. Under the Saxons the place was called Ingel-bourne. 
But the tradition that it was founded by Dunwal Malmutiu 
or Malmud in 400 B.c. seems to rest on fairly firm ground. 
