84 Opening Address to Ike Section of Architecture 



as well as the excavated barrows and British village, had afforded 

 them; and then they drove to Feme, where Sir Thomas Grove 

 kindly offered tea, and so to Tisbury Station, whence they returned 

 by rail to Salisbury. 



Nor were some of the archseologists 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 ArchsGological 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 archsBologists, who spared 

 no pains to make the visit of their English confreres both pleasant 

 and instructive. 



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By the Eev. Peecentoe Venables. 



T has always seemed to me that as it has been the habit of 

 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 Archaeological Institute, 1887, vol. xliv., p. 224. 



