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the company would drink tlie health of the Bishop of Norwich, whose talents 

 as an ornithologist and entomologist were well known. The toast was 

 drunk with great fervour, and the company, after exploring the old house, 

 * treading the very boards which Ray had trodden, and looking perhaps 

 on trees and plants which Ray had admired,' returned to the White 

 Hart Iim, Witham, where, about four o'clock, twenty gentlemen sat down 

 to dinner, Edward Torster, Esq. in the chair, and R. Taylor, Esq. acting as 

 vice-president. A variety of toasts were given, and at six o'clock the meet- 

 ing broke up, and returned by the rail to London, carrying with them a 

 pleasing, and, doubtless, it will be a long-cherished recollection of the day's 

 excursion. 



" We must not omit to mention, that the party assembled at Dewlands, 

 before they separated, recorded their signatures in a work belonging to Mr. 

 Pattisson, 'Derham's Life and Remains of Ray,' which wiU, doubtless, be 

 treasured by Mr. P. as an interesting memento of the visit, and handed 

 down to his latest posterity." — Chelmsford Chronicle, June 1845.] 



