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Summary of Proceedings and Excursions for the year 1904-1905. 
By the Honorary Secretaries. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, 
The Annual Meeting of the Field Club was held at the 
Royal Literary and Scientific Institution on February 18th, rg04. 
The accounts for the year were presented by the Treasurer, 
Colonel Nash, and showed a balance of £44 16s. 7d. in favour 
of the Club. In the election of officials the changes made were 
the substitution of Mr. Trice Martin for Mr. McMurtrie as Vice- 
President, and of Mr. Kemble for Mr. Trice Martin on the 
Committee. Mr. Appleby was asked to undertake the duties 
of Librarian, and consented. The Club has lost only one 
Member by death: Mr. Austin J. King, who had been a Member 
since 1885, and who had contributed on two occasions to the 
Transactions of the Club, died on August 28th. It would be 
superfluous here to enter upon an account of Mr. King’s career: 
it is fully recorded in the local papers, and the special memorials 
of his work are to be found not in the annals of our Club but in 
the Educational developments of the late School Board, of which 
he was a prominent member. Still, it is fitting to mention here 
his contributions to antiquarian knowledge, the chief of which 
was his book on the Municipal Records of Bath, in the prepara- 
tion of which he had the Town Clerk (Mr. B. H. Watts) as his 
coadjutor. He wrote also a History of Bath from the Norman 
Conquest to the r9th Century for the Handbook prepared for 
the visit of the British Association in 1888. In alluding to the 
loss the Club had sustained, the President laid special stress on 
the services Mr. King had rendered in elucidating our interesting ~ 
Civic Records. 
In August the British Archzeological Association visited Bath, 
and as was fitting, such preparations as could be made. by the 
Club to render their gathering successful were carried out. The 
