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 ^rocEftiings at tf)£ iWeetings of (bt ^rcfidcologicnl Jnstttute. Annual Meeting, 185-i. Held at Cambridge, July 4th to 11th. The Annual Meeting of the Institute in the University of Cambridge commenccil on Tuesday, July 4, under the patronage of Ilis Royal High- ness the Prince Chancellor, and with the cordial encouragement of the yice-Chancellor and authorities of the University, as also of the Mayor and Borough Council of that ancient town. The introductory meeting took place on the evening of that day. The Mayor and municipal authori- ties, whose friendly invitation, received at the close of the Annual Meeting at Chichester, had given assurance of hearty welcome and desire to pro- mote the objects of the Institute, assembled in the Council Chamber to give a suitable reception to the noble President ; and they conducted him, accompanied by some of the leading members of the Society, presidents and officers of the sections, and members of the Central Committee, into the Town Ilall. Lord Talbot de Malahide having taken the chair, the following congratulatory Address was read, at the request of the Mayor, by the Town Clerk : — " To the Right Honourable the Lord Talbot de Malahide, the President, and the Members of the Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. " We, the flavor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of the Borough of Cam- bridge, beg we may be permitted to tender you our cordial welcome on this your first visit to this ancient and renowned seat of learning, " We highly appreciate the value of the investigations in which you are engaged. The careful discrimination of facts which properly fall within the province of Archaeology we consider of the utmost importance, as serving essentially to enlighten the obscurity of the past. We congratulate you on the success which has hitherto attended your learned researches, and sincerely trust your Institute may long continue to accumulate and disseminate interesting truths illustrative of History and the Arts, Manners and Usages of former times. We especially hope that your visit to this most interesting place may be eminently conducive to the useful ends for which your body has been established, and productive of unmixed gratifi- cation to each of you individually. " Given (by order of the Council) under the common seal of the said borough, at the Guildhall there, on the fourth day of July, 1854." In proposing the vote of hearty thanks to the Corporation for the grati- fying welcome with which the Institute had thus been greeted at the outset of their proceedings, Lord Talbot expressed the peculiar satisfaction with which he witnessed in that ancient seat of learning such unison of feeling in regard to the value of those researches, which it was the