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to meet members of the local Committee, under whose 

 guidance they began a perambulation of the ancient town, 

 visiting some of the most noteworth}^ of its old buildings. 

 These included the Angel Hotel, where there are some fine 

 specimens of Elizabethan woodwork — remains of the old inn 

 — and St. Mary's Church, where the chancel is higher than 

 the nave, and the floor slopes from east to west. From the 

 church the party proceeded to the remains of the Castle, 

 built upon an artificial chalk mound. Here the members 

 were joined by the Mayor and other prominent townsmen, 

 with whom they adjourned to the Town Hall, on the way to 

 Abbott's Hospital, the finely preserved example of one of 

 the best periods of English architecture, which forms so 

 striking a feature of the High Street. This interesting 

 building was thoroughly explored, even the jealously guarded 

 muniment room being thrown open to inspection, together 

 with some of its choicest treasures. Here the usual Congress 

 photograph was taken in the court}'ard. Holy Trinity 

 Church and the Royal Grammar School complete the list of 

 places visited during this full afternoon, the party being led 

 throughout by Mr. Ralph Nevill, F.S.A., the well-known and 

 genial archffiologist, who took the greatest interest in the 

 entire proceedings of the Congress, and helped materially to 

 its success. 



In the evening the Mayor received us at the County and 

 Borough Hall, which was our headquarters throughout the 

 visit, and after an hour spent in social intercourse under the 

 genial influences of music and refreshments, we adjourned 

 to the castle grounds, which had been tastefully decorated 

 and illuminated, and where the principal portion of Guild- 

 ford's population was gathered in our honour. So passed 

 the first da)-. 



On Thursday we bent our energies seriously to work, with 

 a meeting of the Council at 9.30 and a gathering of delegates 

 at 10.15, when the officers and committees rendered satis- 

 factory accounts of their stewardship. At the general 

 meeting which followed, Mr. Henry Bury, F.G.S., gave a 

 most interesting lantern lecture on the " Relations of the 

 River Wey to the Blackwater and the Arun," showing how 

 these rivers had fought for territory in the Farnham and 

 Hindhead districts, and how the Arun had stolen some of 

 the Wey's contributory streams. Mr. E. A. Martin followed 

 with a further contribution on " Dew-ponds," in continuation 

 of the papers on that subject he has read at previous 

 meetings. From his experiments it appeared clear that the 



