272 The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting. 
The Rev. Canon Jackson, F.S.A., then read a very interesting 
paper on the “Vale of Warminster,” which need not be further 
mentioned here, as it will be found in ex/enso in another part of this 
Magazine. At its conclusion the noble President, in the name of all 
present, tendered their best thanks to Canon Jackson for his most in- 
structive lecture. 
Mr. C. H. Tatsor (one of the General Secretaries) then gave 
some information for the guidance of excursionists on the following 
day ; and this terminated the proceedings. 
THE DINNER 
took place in the lower room of the Town Hall, which had been 
tastefully decorated for the occasion, the President of the Meeting 
(the Marquis of Bath) in the chair. A large number of ladies and 
gentlemen attended; and the hall was well filled. In proposing 
the health of the Queen, the noble President said it was the proud 
boast of this country that we did not live under institutions that 
had been established by a stroke of the pen of any politician or 
philosopher. The institutions of the country had developed gradually 
according to the wants of the people and the developments of the 
races. To trace out those developments was one of the duties of 
archeologists, and they often looked to archxological science and 
inquiry to give them the reason for the existence of many things, 
which without such inquiry might seem at first sight anomalous and 
unnecessary. But there was one institution of the country which 
‘needed no archeological inquiry to justify. He meant the existing 
sovereign of the realm and their loyalty as subjects. The time at 
- their disposal was so short that he would not trespass long upon their 
patience in proposing a toast which required so few words to re- 
commend it. He proposed the health of “‘ Her Majesty the Queen.” 
The noble Cuarrman next proposed the health of His Royal 
Highness the Prince of Wales and the other Members of the Royal 
Family. After which his Lordship said that of all objects which 
were of interest to archxologists there were none so numerous, 
so varied in kind, and that occupied so much of the attention 
of archzological societies, and of those who took the least interest 
