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Vicar, led the way into the beautiful and most interesting Church 

 — the history of which he proceeded 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 CHANTEY 

 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 archaeology 

 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. 



