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 406 PROCEEDIXGS AT MEETINGS OF to do for this proposeil uiulortaking what Dr. Bliss hatl so admirably carried out for Anthony a Wood. The meeting then adjourned, and at one o'clock the liiial meeting commenced iu tlie Senate House. The Noble President having taken the chair, the Viee-Chancellor being at his right liand, and the Mayor at his left, a distinguished assemblage of the heads of Mouses, University and Municipal OtKcers, with many ladies, and the leading members surrounding him, the concluding proceedings commenced, and Loun Talbot observed that the pleasing duty now devolved upon him to return thanks to all those by whose assistance or influence the successful issue of the meeting had been achieved. The Institute had been liighly favdured on this occasion in the distinction conferred on the Society by II. R. II. the Prince Consort, who had graced the meeting with his ]»resence. Lord Talbot now proposed that their best and most respectful thanks be returned to the Prince-Chancellor, the Patron of their meeting, for his condescension in thus honouring the proceedings of the Society. This proposition having been carried with much applause, Sir Charles Anderson, Bart., spoke with much feeling of the generous cordiality and hospitable kindness which had been extended to the Institute iu the University, and he proposed an expression of grateful acknowledgment to the Vice-Chancellor, the Masters of Trinity, Caius, Christ's, and Magda- lene, the Provost of King's and other Heads of Houses, and the University authorities, to whose friendly encouragement and welcome the Society both collectively and individually had been so largely indebted. The VlCE-CiiANCELLOR, in returning thanks, expressed the feeling of gratification which, he was fully assured, the distinguished members of the University around him shared with himself, in the retrospect of the proceedings of the past week, and the agreeable intercourse which they had enjoyed with their archaeological visitors on this occasion. The Prince-Chancellor had shown in a remarkable maimer his gracious con- currence in the desire which had been generally entertained in the Univer- sity to give encouragement to the visit of the Institute, and his Royal Highness had expressed in most gratifying terms his satisfaction in that part of their proceedings which had been favoured by his presence. The Hon. NV. Fux Strangway.s proposed the most cordial thanks of the Institute to the Mayor and Borough Council, for the welcome so kindly expressed in their address, and for their obliging co-operation, from the earliest moment when the visit of the Society had been in anticipation. The Mayor acknowledged the comj)liment thus paid to him, with assurances of the pleasure with which lie had rendered any assistance in hi.s power towards the success of the meeting, and the gratification of the Hocu'ty. The Master of Tkinitv then HKivcd a vote of (hanks to (ho noblemen and gentlcriH'n who had thrown open their mansions and shown gratifying attentions to the members (jf the Institute during the exeiiisioiis of tho week, and <;sjiocialIy to Lord Braybrooke, the Hon. Jiichard .Neville, Lord Arthur licrvcy, and the membeiH of the" kindred Socu'ty of Sullolk, of which lie is tho President. Mr. K1CEE.MAN proposed thanks to those who hail received the Institutp, und welcomed tho Society with liberal liospitiility on several occasions ; more eHpeciully to the Bisliop of i'lly, and to the l>ean of l"]|y, one of the warmcHt and earliest of their friends, to the Mayor and inhubilants of