The Dinner. 



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Chairman, was carried with acclamation by the Meeting. Those 

 who have ever heard one of the veteran Canon's papers know that 

 the singular power he possesses of revivifying even the driest bones 

 of local history by the touch of his own genial humour makes those 

 papers one of the greatest treats of the Annual Meetings of the 

 Society. The paper itself will be found at a later page of the 

 Magazine. 



Mr. Smith having stated that the Rev. Canon Warre and the 

 Rev. W. P. S. Bingham had consented to act as Local Honorary 

 Secretaries for Melksham and Westbury respectively, proposed that 

 their names should be added to the list of Local Secretaries. This 

 having been seconded by Mr. Swayne, and agreed to, the Meeting 

 came to a close, and the Members, under the guidance of the Rev. 

 W. P. S. Bingham and Mr. C. E. Ponting, F.S.A., adjourned to 

 the parish Church and examined its architectural details; some few 

 Members paying a visit to the Westbury Iron Works, which by the 

 kindness of Mr. S. Anderson were open for their inspection. 



THE DINNER. 



At 6 o'clock some thirty Members sat down to the Anniversary 

 Dinner at the Lopes Arms Hotel. The Puesident of the Society, 

 the Bishop of Salisbury, who had arrived shortly before the hour 

 fixed for dinner, occupied the chair — and at the conclusion of dinner 

 proposed as the first toast, " The Queen, the Prince and Princess of 

 Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family," dwelling especially on 

 the late marriage of Princess Louise of Wales and the great interest 

 that had been taken by the whole nation in that event. 



The President next proposed the " Health of the Inhabitants of 

 Westbury," coupling with the toast the name of Mr. Laverton, who 

 had so kindly taken his place that afternoon. He expressed his 

 regret that he was unable to be present before, more especially as 

 he had missed the pleasure of heariDg Canon Jackson's paper, by 

 his absence. 



Mr. Laverton, in responding, expressed the hope that the in- 

 habitants of Westbury would show their appreciation of the Society's 



