804 he Dinner: 
information needed, and communicate with him on the subject. 
W. W. Ravenutitt, Esq., then read a very interesting paper on 
“Sir Walter Long, which will be printed in extenso in a future 
number of the Magazine, and for which the President tendered the 
learned author the best thanks of the meeting. 
The Rev. Presenpary Jonus, F.S.A., gave a very able address 
on the “Early Annals of Trowbridge; ” and with this also in full 
it is hoped that the pages of the Magazine will be enriched. 
This terminated the proceedings of the morning meeting, and the 
company then proceeded to examine the various objects of interest 
with which the temporary museum was filled, while others visited 
the churches and other objects of interest in the town. 
THE DINNER 
Took place at the George Hotel, at half-past five o’clock, the 
President of the Society in the chair. After other complimentary 
toasts, Archdeacon Stanton, in replying to that of the Bishop and 
Clergy of the Diocese, said that as a member of the clerical body, 
he felt that they owed great gratitude to the Archeological Societies 
of England. Their Society was only one of many, for now, he was 
happy to say, they had them in almost every county in the land. 
In the preservation of everything that was valuable in antiquities 
they found powerful handmaids in those Societies. They found that 
wherever their annual meetings were held, they stirred up a great 
deal of interest in regard to old buildings among people who were 
previously indifferent to such matters, and were also the means of 
preventing that neglect which prevailed in many places, and in 
consequence of which many valuable buildings had been permitted 
to fall into decay. But he could not help admiring the great change 
which was coming over England in the rapidly extending, intelligent 
desire for the preservation of objects of antiquity. They were be- 
ginning to find that there was a latent spirit—a kind of instinct 
—of archeology in all persons. They had all tastes of some kind 
in that way; some liked old books, some old houses, some old 
manuscripts, some old pictures, some old castles, and some old 
cathedrals. Now, all those varied tastes existing among them, 
