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Vicar, led the way into the beautiful and most interesting Church 
—the history of which he proceedgd to describe. Unfortunately 
the distance from Warminster made it necessary for those who 
had to catch the afternoon trains to leave Mere at 3.30, whilst the 
remainder of the party stayed on and visited first the CHANTRY 
HOUSE, by kind permisssion of DR. LONG, and afterwards, under 
the guidance of MR. T. H. BAKER, the very interesting house and 
chapel of WOODLANDS. The long drive back to Warminster by 
the Deverill valley brought the meeting of 1904 to a close—a 
meeting favoured throughout by perfect weather, in which the 
beautiful woodland scenery of Longleat and Stourhead was looking 
its loveliest. Indeed the excursions on both days were singularly 
 enjoyable,though it must be confessed that the leaven of archzeology 
was not too conspicuous. Probably the most striking features of 
the meeting were the popular success of the evening meetings, and 
the prominent place given to geology, botany, and ornithology 
during the proceedings. Certainly, in point of the numbers at- 
tending, and in the amount of interest taken locally in the pro- 
ceedings, the Warminster Meeting of 1904 will compare favorably 
with any meeting held for the last twenty years. 
