34 Opening Address to the Section of Architecture 
as well as the excavated barrows and British village, had afforded 
them; and then they drove to Ferne, where Sir Thomas Grove 
kindly offered tea, and so to Tisbury Station, whence they returned 
by rail to Salisbury. 
Nor were some of the archeologists yet satiated with antiquities, 
for, at the conclusion of the Meeting at Salisbury, a select party, 
composed partly of Members of the Institute and partly of Members 
of the Wiltshire Archzological Society, by previous arrangement, 
made an expedition to Brittany, and crossing over from Southampton 
to Cherbourg arrived at Coutance on Friday, August 12th, and 
spent the day in visiting the Cathedral and other Churches of that 
city. Next day they went to Mont St. Michel : and the subsequent 
days were devoted to Vannes, Locmariaquer, and some of the islands’ 
of the Morbihan, and in visiting the many lines of stones, the in- 
numerable dolmens and stone circles for which that district is 
famous; finishing the expedition at Quimper. Throughout they 
were most kindly received by the French archzologists, who spared 
no pains to make the visit of their English confréres both pleasant 
and instructive. 
Opening Address to the Section of Architecture 
at the Salishurpy AMeeting. 
By the Rev. Precentor VENABLES. 
JT has always seemed to me that as it has been the habit of 
oo &{ the Presidents of the Historical and Antiquarian Sections 
in their respective addresses, to give a sketch of the history and 
antiquities of the place where the Meeting is held, with a mention 
1 Delivered at Salisbury, August 4th, 1887, and printed in the Journal of the 
Royal Archzological Institute, 1887, vol. xliv., p. 224, : 
