50 SECOND ANNUAL MEETING. 
detained you too long, and I feel how imperfectly I have 
developed the ideas which the meeting of this society has 
suggested tome. I trust, however, that I have said enough 
to prevent them being misunderstood. To have fully ex- 
plained them would have been to have occupied more time 
than the whole which can be devoted to papers and remarks 
far more valuable than my own. I will conclude, merely 
with wishing prosperity to this society, and expressing the 
pleasure it has given me that it has honoured this city with 
its meetine ; 
& ; and I would only now impress upon its mem- 
bers, especially its younger ones, to remember how much 
of the success of their pursuits in either branch of nature 
or of art—(and indeed the principle will apply to far higher 
interests than these) depends upon the careful and faithful 
attention to small things and on combining an appreciation 
of the present with a reverence for the past. "Thus followed 
out in a spirit of thankful kumility, these pursuits may tend 
as much to the glory of God as to the good of man. 
The Rev. T. F. Dymock then read the Report of the 
Committee for the year, as follows :— 
“In pursuance of their design, of accumulating facts and 
inviting correspondence with persons in all parts of the 
county, your Committee have issued series of questions on 
Archaeology, Ecclesiastical Architecture, and Botany. 
These last have drawn forth but few replies, but in the two 
first subjects they have received returns from twenty parishes 
some of which furnish very complete information, and others 
which are very defective may not be without use as serving 
to indicate in what cases it is worth while to make further 
enquiries. 
“ Three quarterly meetings have been hell—in January 
April and July—at the towns of Taunton, Bridgwater, and 
Frome, at which papers have been read, and oral commu- 
