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Club Committee were invited to join the General Committee 
which dealt’ with the reception by the Mayor, and on the evening 
of August 12th the President and Mrs. Shickle entertained the 
visitors and other friends at the Guildhall. Addresses were 
delivered by the President on the City Chamberlain’s Accounts 
and by Mr. Sydenham on the Bath Waters and Radium. 
Through the kindness of the Town Clerk (Mr. B. H. Watts) the 
City Charters were exhibited in the Library, and described by 
Dr. W. De Gray Birch, the Hon. Treasurer of the Association. 
With almost uniformly fine weather for their excursions, and with 
provision made for enjoyable evenings, the members of the British 
Archzological Association could not fail to be gratified with their 
visit to Bath in 1904. 
During the year the work of opening the tumuli on Lansdown 
was proceeded with, and £5 was voted in October for the 
continuance of Mr. Trice Martin’s enquiries into the line followed 
by the Via Julia. To carry on the work on Lansdown the co- 
operation of landowners and tenants was obviously necessary, and 
the Club sent cordial letters of thanks to those who had given the 
required permission to dig on their property, and votes of thanks 
were also passed to Messrs. Bush and Grey, who had assisted 
‘Mr. Trice Martin in the exploration. A short account of the 
work, so far as it has proceeded, has been forwarded by 
Mr. Martin, and will be found on page 526. The Committee, 
while desirous to help in a work so intimately connected with 
‘the purposes for which the Club was formed, felt that they could 
not, from the funds at their disposal, give as much pecuniary 
assistance as they wished : it is, therefore, hoped that gentlemen 
who take an interest in such explorations will be induced to join 
the Club, and with an increased balance to the Club’s credit no 
doubt some valuable finds might be expected. 
The papers which are here given in full will be perused with 
‘interest. Mr. Green contributes a paper on John Wilkes, in 
which will be found the items of expenditure necessarily incurred 
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