The Dinner. 



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Society had in view. He had been a member of the Society ever 

 since its formation, and he was also a member of the Archaeological 

 Institute of Great Britain, and in the presence of his juniors, he 

 would say, that he knew of nothing which gave greater satisfaction 

 or from which greater benefit was derived than these annual 

 gatherings. He strongly urged them to take up the work which 

 he and others must soon put down, and carry it on to greater 

 confirmation. They would find in it sources of the greatest 

 pleasure and profit— of pleasure, in the opportunity which it 

 afforded of meeting many old friends, and of profit, in the instruc- 

 tion which they would derive from it, as the key-note to much 

 research ; because although the papers which were read on these 

 occasions were very valuable, they desired them to be considered 

 as inducements to further investigation. He thought if the 

 juniors present would take this kind word of advice from him, 

 they would hereafter say it had been well given, and he was sure 

 they would be wise in following it. If these institutions had only 

 been in existence in bygone ages, how much that was now lost in 

 obscurity might have been preserved. — How much about Stonehenge 

 and Avebury, which were now only monuments of mystery, might 

 have been read and known of all men. 



Canon Jackson in replying for the Bishop and Clergy of the 

 Diocese of Gloucester and Bristol observed that Archdeacon Stanton 

 had given some good advice to those who were to succeed them 

 — because it was clear that they could not go on archseologizing 

 for ever : they had also been recommended, as far as they had 

 opportunities of doing so, to make memoranda in their several 

 parishes of things as they occurred ; and he hoped they would 

 follow the Archdeacon's advice. Years ago he had given the 

 same advice himself, but it had not been taken ; although much 

 had been done in the way of obtaining a parochial history of our 

 county. Many years ago the late Bishop Hamilton, of whom he 

 must always speak with the utmost veneration, summoned his 

 brethren of this part of the county to his Palace at Salisbury with 

 the view of stirring up the clergy of the diocese to write a parochial 

 history; and this gentleman (pointing to the Rev. Prebendary 



