8 TWELFTU ANNUAL MEETING. 



Mr. ß. A. Kinglake called llie attention of the meeting 

 to an advertisement from which it would appear that the 

 Collection of Mendip Cave-bones made by Mr. Beard was 

 for sale. Lord Talbot de Malahide and others thought it 

 very desirable to preserve to the county a collection so 

 valuable in Itself, and especially interesting to the members 

 of this Society from the locality to which they bclonged.* 



€'fie (Exnirsion. 



Soon after two o'clock a large party started to visit 

 some of the places of interest in the neighbourhood. 

 The Rev. T. Bliss, of Clevedon, acted, on this and the 

 succeeding days, as conductor; Mr. Parker undertook to 

 give descriptions of the houses, manorial or monastic, 

 that were visited ; and Mr. Freeman of the churches. 

 The explanation of camps and earthworks feil to the Eev. 

 F. Warre. 



The party first halted at Clevedon Court, the residence 

 of Sir A. H. Elton, Bart., and Mr. Parker gave the follow- 

 ing description of the house : — 



Clevedon Court is a house of the time of Edward IL, 

 or the first half of the fourteenth Century, much altered 

 and added to, and with parts rebuilt, but of which the 

 main walls remain, and the original plan may still be 



* Immediately after the Annual Meeting, the Committeeof the Society 

 appointed a deputation to examine the Collection of Cave-bones offered for 

 sale, but fiading from their report that it was not Mr. Beard's collection, no 

 further steps were taken in the matter. If the latter collection is ever 

 dispersed, there are many specimens which the Society ought not to allow 

 to go out of this county. In fact the Williams' Collection purchased by the 

 Society, and Mr. Beard's Collection at Banwell are each the complement of 

 the other. 



