6 THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. 
condition, as on its increasing usefulness for the purposes 
for which it was established.” 
Mr. Bapcock, the treasurer, presented his report, an 
abstract of which is subjoined, viz. :— 
The Treasurer in Account with the Somersetshire Acchaeological and 
Dr. Patural Wistorp Sorietp. Cr. 
1851. £ sd 1851. £ s.d. 
Balance of former account - 74 16 10 Curator’s Slarıy - - 3 00 
Subscriptions, donations, &e. 267 14 4 Rent of Museum Room - - 2500 
Printing, Plates, &e, first Vol. 
of Proceedinss - - 26 5 rL 
Books, Maps, &c.&e, - - 4912 4 
Statinery,&. - - .3138 8 
Balance - 2 0.85 7 
£342 11 2 £342 1 2 
kt m 
R. G. BADCOCK, Treasurer. 
Mr. Mıtes, m.r. in moving the adoption of the report, 
expressed his conviction that an increased interest had 
been aroused in the county by the recent meeting of the 
Archological Institute, at Bristol. He was happy to 
find that the utmost economy prevailed in the manage- 
ment of the funds of the Society. 
Mr. Dick1nson seconded the motion. 
The first Paper was by Mr. E. Davis, on the Abbey 
Church of Bath. At the outset he remarked that many 
accounts had been written of the Abbey, all of them 
speaking in the highest terms of the beauty of its design, 
but agreeing also in the faultiness of the details and the 
clumsiness of the work. He looked on the building, how- 
ever, ina different light. He did not consider it as an 
example of the perpendicular, but as the herald of a new 
style. At the beginning of the sixteenth century, about 
which time the Abbey was designed, the literature and art 
