The Dinner. 5: 
Chairman, was carried with acclamation by the Meeting. Those 
who have ever heard one of the veteran Canon’s papers know that 
the singular power he possesses of revivifying even the driest bones 
of local history by the touch of his own genial humour makes those 
papers one of the greatest treats of the Annual Meetings of the 
Society. The paper itself will be found at a later page of the 
Magazine. 
Mr. Smita having stated that the Rev. Canon Warre and the 
Rev. W. P. S. Bingham had consented to act as Local Honorary 
Secretaries for Melksham and Westbury respectively, proposed that 
their names skould be added to the list of Local Secretaries. This 
having been seconded by Mr. Swayne, and agreed to, the Meeting 
came to aclose, and the Members, under the guidance of the Rev. 
W. P. S. Bineuam and Mr. C. E. Pontine, F.S.A., adjourned to 
the parish Church and examined its architectural details; some few 
Members paying a visit to the Westbury Iron Works, which by the 
kindness of Mr, S. Anderson were open for their inspection. 
THE DINNER. 
At 6 o’clock some thirty Members sat down to the Anniversary 
Dinner at the Lopes Arms Hotel. The Presipent of the Society, 
the Bishop of Salisbury, who had arrived shortly before the hour 
fixed for dinner, oceupied the chair—and at the conclusion of dinner 
proposed as the first toast, ‘‘ The Queen, the Prince and Princess of 
Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family,” dwelling especially on 
the late marriage of Princess Louise of Wales and the great interest 
that had been taken by the whole nation in that event. 
_ The PrestpEnt next proposed the “ Health of the Inhabitants of 
Westbury,” coupling with the toast the name of Mr. Laverton, who 
had so kindly taken his place that afternoon. He expressed his 
regret that he was unable to be present before, more especially as 
he had missed the pleasure of hearing Canon Jackson’s paper, by 
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his absence. 
Mr. Laverton, in responding, expressed the hope that the in- 
| habitants of Westbury would show their appreciation of the Society’s 
