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 330 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OF The Annual Dinner took place this day at the Victoria Rooms, Clifton, and the Members of the Canjnges Society joined the Members of the Institute in a joint banquet, the Chair, being taken by Mr. Harford, President of both Societies. "With the customary toasts on these occasions, were united several, expressive of sympathy and cordial interest in the undertaking promoted by the Cauynges Society. Amongst those distin- guished guests by whom the company were addressed, may be mentioned the Chevalier Bunsen, Lord Talbot, the Bishop of Oxford, the Mayor of Bristol, Mr. Alderman Pountney, Mr. Hallam, the Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, the Principal of Brasenose College, Sir Charles Anderson, and the Dean of Bristol. Friday, August 1. The Section of Antiquities assembled at ten, in the Theatre of the Institution, Lord Talbot presiding. A Memoir was read by James Yates, Esq., F.R.S., on the status known as " The Dying Gladiator." He considered the person represented to have been of one of the northern nations, long engaged in conflict with the Romans : he bore the insignia of the tore, a curious ornament of which several remarkable examples found in Somersetshire might be seen in the Museum at the Bishop's College. He directed attention to the long horn, broken and lying with his sword. Such horns were used in figlit by the northern nations, and examples are preserved in the Museums of Copenhagen and Schwerin, as also several in the Museum of the Royal Irish Academy, represented in the drawings sent for exhibition at the present meeting. Octatius Morgan, Esq., M.P., otfered some interesting remarks upon the assay and year marks used by goldsmiths in England, and stated that he had been able to carry back the latter to a much more distant period than was comprised in the lists of the Goldsmiths' Company, thus aflfording the means of precisely ascertaining the date of fabrication of ancient English plate. The Rev. W. Gunner read some curious extracts from the Roll of household expenses of William of Wykeham, in the year 1394. In the Historical Section, Mr. Hallam presided, and Edwin Guest, Esq., F.R.S., communicated a dissertation upon the Saxon Conquest of West Britain, in continuation of his Memoirs delivered at the previous Annual Meetings at Salisbury and Oxford. The first portion of this im- portant subject will be found in the Salisbury Transactions, the publication of which has just been announced by Mr. Bell f and the discourse given by Mr. Guest, at Oxford, will be found in this volume. (See p. 143.) Captain Chapman, R.E., communicated ob.=ervations on names of places, supposed to be of Celtic origin, and brought before the meeting the ancient lists of the citizens of Bath at various periods, preserved in the Subsidy Rolls, t. Edw. III. ; the Poll Tax of 2 Rich. II.. and the list of citizens elected to serve in Parliament, from the year 1298, with detailed observations upon the derivation of the surnames occurring in these documents. '' This volume, of which the publication Price to Subscribers, las. It may be had been undertaken by Mr. G. Bell, obtained through all booksellers. 1 8C, Fleet Street, is now ready for delivery.