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 ANNUAL MEETING. 319 the Committee would recommend Bristol, as presenting numerous attrac- tions, with great facilities for visiting the interesting sites in South Wales, Chepstow, Tintern, and Caerlcon, with the antiquities there recently brought to light, and the Museum established by an active local Society under the auspices of Sir Digby Mackworth. John Britton, Esq. begged to express his warm interest in the proposi- tion to visit Bristol, a locality replete with ancient remains, the claims of which upon the antiquary he had long appreciated. The noble architectural monuments in that city, the Cathedral of Wells, and numerous vestiges of every period, combined to render the place proposed singularly eligible for the objects of the Institute ; and he had received frequent intimation of the desire that they should assemble at Bristol, on an early occasion. It was unanimously resolved to hold the meeting of the following year at Bristol. The ViCE-CiTANCELLOR then rose, and observed that the business of the occasion being closed, the gratifying duty devolved upon himself to convey their thanks to their President. He alluded to the kindness with which the Marquis had hastened home from an interesting foreign tour, that they might not be disappointed of the advantage and gratification of his presence. In common with all the members of the University, he felt the highest satisfaction that the noble President of the Institute had on this occasion permitted them to enrol, as a member of that University, one who was so distinguished a member of the University of Cambridge, and whose life had been devoted to the advancement of science and literature. Sir Charles Anderson proposed a vote of thanks to the Vice-ChanccUor, who had so cordially promoted their success by his patronage, and with the kindest consideration secured every desired facility for their advantage. J. 11. Maukland, Esq., then proposed their acknowledgment to the heads of houses, the proctors, and other distinguished members of the University, from which they had received so friendly a welcome. They must gratefully esteem the sanction thus given to the pursuits of British archaeologists by that ancient University. He alluded to the enlightened advance of science since the days of Anthony Wood and Hearne, who little thought of times when the noble and the learned would here be found taking a prominent part in a society instituted for the preservation of national antiquities. W. W. E. Wynne, Esq., expressed a suitable tribute to the warm encour- agement which they had enjoyed from the Mayor and the Municipal authorities. The Mayor returned his thanks, with the assurance of the gratification which in common with his fellow citizens he had derived from the visit of the Institute, and the opportunity of adding in any degree to the cordial reception with which the Society had been met in that ancient city. A resolution was proposed by the Rev. J. Hamilton Gray to return thanks to the Curators of Public Institutions, especially of the Bodleian Library, the Ashmolean Museum, the Taylor Building, in which the Insti- tute had been permitted to form so attractive a museum, to the Presidents, also, of the Ashmolean and Architectural Societies. — The comiiliment was acknowledged in very gratifying terms by the Rev. R. Greswell, Presi- dent of the Ashmolean Society. The Rev. J. L. Petit then claimed a grateful testimony to the kindness of the Rev. William Sewell, whose reception of the Institute within the