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 3U ARCHAEOLOGICAL IXTELLIGENCE. an opening address, which was followed by a discourse •' On the Re- ligious bearing of Archajology upon* Architecture and Art," by the Rev. J. Jessop. Mr. G. Bish Webb, Hon. Sec., read a Memoir on the line of Ancient Way between Staines and Silchester, passino- through Surrey, descriptive of a survey executed some years since by the cadets of Sandhurst College, under the direction of Col. Prosser. A large collection of antiquities, documents, drawings, and other objects, chiefly connected with the county of Surrey, was exhibited. At the annual meeting at Kingston, W. .T. Evelyn, Esq., M.P., presided, and memoirs were read, by Dr. Bell, on the Kingston Coronation Stone, and on other similar stones in foreign countries; by Mr. Maynard, on the History and Antiquities of Kingston; by Mr. G. R. Corner, on a Grant of Land in Southwark by William, second Earl Warren, a knife being appended to the document in lieu of a seal; by Mr. W. Griffith, on Baptismal Fonts ; and by the Rev. C. Boutell, on the Medieval Court of the Sydenham Palace. Excavations were made at a barrow at Teddington, and some ancient reliques found. A temporary Museum was formed, to which the inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood were admitted for two days after the meeting, and a large number of persons availed themselves of the privilege. The WiLTsiiinE Auciiakological Society held their first annual meeting at Salisbury, on Sept. 13, the proceedings, which were of a very interesting character, being extended to two days ; on the second day, an entertain- ment was given by the President, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, at Wilton House, and the Society were also received with much kindness by the Bishop at his palace. The memoirs communicated comprised much valuable matter of local interest. The Rev. Arthur Fane contributed Memorials of the Giffard family, and an architectural description of Boyton Church; the Rev. E. Jackson read an account of the Uungerford Chantries in Salisbury Cathedral; the Rev. W. C. Lukis gave a detailed Essay on Campanology, and especially on church bells in Wilts, and Wiltsiiire bell-founders in old times. Mr. Glutton, to whose care the restoration of the Chapter House at Salisbury has been entrusted, read a very aj)propriate paper on the Origin and Uses of Chapter Houses; and Mr. Nightingale, of Wilton, on the Byzantine style of Architecture, and the richly decorated structure erected by Mr. Sidney Herbert. Mr. John Bowyer Nichols contributed an account of the Library formed by the late Sir Richard Colt Hoare, at Stourhead, and of his Wiltshire collections. The SoMEKSETsHiKE AiiCHAEOLOGiSTS held their sixth meeting at Taunton, early in September, with good success ; the principal subjects brought before the society were as follows : The remarkabk^ interments lately discovered on Combe Down, near Bath, by the Rev. H. M. Scarth ; Antiquities found in the turbaries at Chilton Polden, by Mr. W. Stradling; the application of Piiilology to Archajological Investigations, illustrating the derivation of names of places in Somerset, by the Rev. W. Jones ; Comparison between churches of the Perpendicular style in East Anglia and those of Somerset, by Mr. I'^reenian. The Annual MKiniN<; of the Institute for IS."*;"! will Ik* held at SiiiiEwa- nuitv, under the j)fttronage of the Viscount Hiui., Lonl Lieutenant of Shrop»liirc. The Central Coniinittoe request the co-operation of nieinborB of the Institute, to carry out more fully the investigation of the History and Antiquities of that county, hitherto so little known to arehojologists.