PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



SOMERSETSHIRE ARCH^EOLOQICAL AND 

 NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



DURING THE YEAES 1856-7. 



PART I 



dKjJrtjr Sltinaal JHttfittg, 



THE Eighth Annual Meeting was held at Bridgwater, 

 on Mouday, the 25th of August, 1856, William 

 Stradling, Esq., in tbe Chair. 



The Vice-Presidents, and General and Local Secre- 

 taries, were severally re-appointed. Messrs. Elliot, Gillett, 

 J. Woodland, T. S. Baynes, and Drs. Metford and Kelly, 

 were elected rnembers of the Conimittee. 



The following Report of the Committee was read by 

 the Rev. W. A. Jones : — 



" In presenting their Eighth Annual Report, your Com- 

 mittee have again the pleasure of informing you that the 

 number of members is well sustained, and consequently 

 that there is every reason to hope that as the Society took 

 root rapidly, so it may grow steadily, and become per- 

 manently useful to the cause of Archaeology and Natural 

 History. Still the limited amount of its income presents 

 a serious obstacle to its exertions; and many an oppor- 

 tunity of profitable investigation and of obtainiug valuable 

 additions to our Museum has been, and will be, lost, if no 



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