FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Somerartshire Archneulogienl amd Hntural 
Tistory Duriety, 
Held at Taunton, on the 26th of September, 1849, at Twelve 
o’Clock, when about 350 persons were present.— An 
adjoining room was fitted up as a temporary Museum. 
SIR WALTER CALVERLY TREVELYAN, BART. THE PRESI- 
DENT, IN THE CHAIR. 
Sn WALTER TREVELYAN, on taking the chair, observed 
that it was scarcely necessary for him to enlarge, 
before such a meeting, on the advantages of an asso- 
ciation like this, —which was now in its infancy, but which 
he hoped would grow rapidly‚—nor to show its utility 
in preserving, and collecting, and spreading information 
upon subjects of considerable importance to all of them ; 
nor was it necessary, he thought, to state how rich this 
county was in all the objects for the investigation of which 
they were assembled together. 
It was rich in the various departments of Natural 
History; as in Fossils, of which many splendid specimens 
of Saurians, (collected near Glastonbury) are in the British 
Museum, — Minerals, Plants, Animals and Fishes, in which 
latter departments one of their members, Mr. Baker, of 
Bridgwater, had made some interesting discoveries, speci- 
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