Excerpt from Proceedings at the General, Quarterly, and Annual Meetings: Held During the Years 1849 and 1850; With the Report of the Committee; Treasurer's Statement of the Accounts; The Rules of the Society At this first general meeting of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, the committee have merely to report to the members the steps which have been taken, and the progress made toward the establishment of the Society. N 0 actual work has yet been publicly entered upon; we have found sufficient employment in preparing the machinery by means of which we hope, by and bye, to explore the treasures of nature and art which this couuty contains, and to accumulate a body of facts in aid of the studies of the antiquary and natural historian. Somersetshire presents as good a field for investigation as perhaps any county of the same size in England; it has the natural advantages of varied soil and surface, and con tains many important remains of medimval antiquity; it is very desirable that this field should be explored thoroughly and systematically, and without further delay, before the works of nature or remains of art suffer any further change from the progress of cultivation, or through the lapse of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.