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 NOTICE or THE ANNUAL MEETING, AT NORWICH. The fourth annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute, which took place at Norwich, under the presidency of the Lord Bishop of the Diocese, commencing on Thursday, July 29, and ending on Thursday, August 5, was numerously attended, and proved in every respect most successful. The papers communicated to the Committee were more nume- rous than on any former occasion, many not being read for want of time. The temporary museum, the contents of which were contributed almost solely by the nobility and gentry of Norfolk and Norwich, presented a remarkable collection of objects illustrating the arts, manufactures, and costume of the middle ages ; and at the conclusion of the meeting it was, by direction of the Committee, opened to the public generally, a small charge for admission being made during the first five days ; for the re- mainder of the time visitors were admitted without restriction and free of charge. A great number of persons availed themselves of this privilege, and the Committee have much pleasure in recording the admirable order and demeanour preserved on the occasion. At the General Meeting held on Thursday, August 5, at the Guildhall, the report of the Central Committee was read and approved ; a financial state- ment for the past year was submitted to the meeting ; and several changes in the laws, of which due notice had been given, were proposed and adopted unanimously ; according to the alterations thus made, it is provided by Rule Vin. " that an Annual London Meeting shall be holden in the second week in May, for receiving the auditors' report, and for the general trans- action of business." The following members of the Central Committee having been selected to retire in annual rotation, viz. The Lord Bishop of Oxford, Vice-President, The Ven. Archdeacon Hale, Thomas Duffus Hardy, Esq., The Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., Ambrose Poynter, Esq., William J. Thoms, Esq., Horace H. Wilson, Esq., the following gentlemen were proposed and unanimously elected to fill the vacancies thus made : The Very Rev. the Dean of Westminster, Vice-President, Edwin Guest, E.sq., M.A., Secretary of the Philological Society, Henry Hallam, Esq., V.P.S.A., Andrew Lawson, Esq., Rev. Henry Hart Milman, M.A., Henry Reeve, Esq., of the Privy Council Office, Edward Smirke, Esq.