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Elizabethan hall to listen to a most lucid and interesting 

 address by Mr. H. E. Maiden on the associations of the 

 house, its carvings, pictures, and past owners and guests. 

 Then we proceeded to Compton, where we had a discourse 

 in the Norman church of St. Nicholas from Mr. P. M. 

 Johnston ; and afterwards some inspected the Watts' Gallery, 

 whilst others visited the ornate mortuary chapel. Again 

 boarding our conveyances, we drove through beautiful lanes 

 to Piccard's Rough, where Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Powell 

 hospitably received us. A brief ramble in the magnificent 

 gardens was a tantalisingly enjoyable experience ; but our 

 steeds were champing their bits, and the day's programme 

 was not exhausted. We bowled home along the lower 

 Pilgrims' Way, and hurried through our dinners that we 

 might be back at the hall in time to hear Mr. Tutt's dis- 

 course, with the aid of the lantern, on " Colour in Insects." 



On Saturday morning we had our final delegates' meeting 

 at 9.45, when we enthusiasticall}' thanked our kind hosts 

 and hostesses, and all who were concerned in making the 

 Congress of igio a most enjoyable event. We then fixed 

 upon St. Albans as the scene of the igii meeting, and 

 elected Sir David Gill, late Astronomer Royal at the Cape, 

 as President. Next we presented a silver rose-bowl to our 

 retiring Secretary, and a silver card-case to Mrs. BuUen, as 

 slight acknowledgments of their great v.-ork for the Union. 

 Here I have to confess that your delegates were guilty of a 

 lapse from the line of conduct they should have foliow^ed. 

 The room had got stuffy, and they were tired of long sitting ; 

 so at the conclusion of the presentations, instead of waiting 

 as they should have done to hear the papers, the}' explored 

 the chalk caverns that run for some distance under the lower 

 part of the town, and afterwards walked out to the garden 

 of rock-plants and alpines at St. Catherine's. After lunch, 

 too, instead of going to Godalming to inspect the modern 

 Charterhouse, they explored the lower Pilgrim's Way 

 between Guildford and Compton, of which the)- had caught 

 a seductive glimpse on the previous day ; afterward returning 

 by the upper route along the Hog's Back. 



For the sake of completeness it may be added that the 

 missed papers were — one dealing with " Waves in Sand 

 and Snow " by Dr. Vaughan Cornish, and another on the 

 " Extinction of Cryptogamous Plants " by Mr. A. R. 

 Horwood, based on reports received from various parts of 

 the United Kingdom. 



The Coni^ress ended officialK- in the afternoon, but the 



