THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Sumersetshire Sechenlagieal amd Hatural 
Dixtery Darichy, 
| Held at Weston-super-Mare, September, 16th, 1851. 
THOMAS TUTTON KNYFTON, ESQ. HIGH SHERIFF OF 
THE COUNTY, IN THE CHAIR. 
HE business commenced on Tuesday morning at 
eleven o’clock, when the members assembled in the 
large and commodious National School Room, which had 
been kindly placed at the service of the Society by the 
Ven. Archdeacon Law, rector of the parish. 
The Vice-Presidents, Treasurers, general Secretaries, 
and the district or local Secretaries, were severally re-ap- 
pointed. The following gentlemen were also elected as 
Vice-Presidents :—The Rev. J. T. Law, T. T. Knyfton, 
Esq. Lord Talbot de Malahide, W. H. P. Gore Langton, 
Esq. m.r. J. H. Smyth Pigott, Esq. and F. H. Synge, 
Esq. The following gentlemen were ballotted for, and 
elected as honorary and corresponding members :—The 
Rev. T. F. Dymock, E. A. Freeman, Esq. the Rev. Joseph 
Hunter, the Rev. Richard Warner, W. Yarrell, Esq. 
Charles Empson, Esq. and W. Tyson, Esq. The gentle- 
1851, PART I. A 
