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304 PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS OP joined the Society since the meeting at Lincoln. The President announced Oxford as the place recommended for the Meeting in 1850 ; a proposition seconded in gratifying and most cordial terms by the venerable President of Trinity College, Dr. Ingram, who tendered the fullest assurance of a most hearty and hospitable welcome in the University. The Marquis op Northampton was then proposed as President Elect, and this nomination was carried with acclamation. The following alteration in the laws, of which notice had been duly received by the Central Committee, was then proposed and carried : — To alter Law 1, to the following effect : That, in future, the annual subscription shall be one guinea, the life composition, ten guineas ; and that an admission fee of one guinea be also payable, to be appropriated to the formation of a Library Pund. The President then announced the proposed changes in the Central Committee. Members of the Central Committee selected to go out, according to customary practice : Vice-President Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. Members of the Committee : Edward Blore, Esq. ; Eev. S. R. Maitland ; Eev, H. H. Milman ; Evelyn P. Shirley, Esq. ; Thomas Stapleton, Esq. ; T. Hudson Turner, Esq. The following gentlemen being nominated to fill up the vacancies : As Vice-President, the Earl of EnniskiUen ; as Members of the Committee, Augustus W, Pranks, Esq. ; John Holmes, Esq. ; Octavius Morgan, Esq., M.P. ; Frederic Ouvry, Esq., P.S.A. ; Pdchard Westmacott, Esq., E.A. ; James Yates, Esq., P.R.S. And the following gentlemen were proposed as Auditors : Edward Hailstone, Esq. ; Alexander Nesbitt, Esq. These propositions, formally moved, were carried unanimously. Votes of thanks were then passed in acknowledgment of facilities and hospitality shown to the Society in Wiltshire. Mr, SoTHERON expressed grateful thanks to then- patron, the Eight Eev. Diocesan, and to the Dean and Chapter, alluding with much feeUng to the pain- ful cause which had deprived them of the Dean's personal co-operation. This compliment having been acknowledged by the Eev. P. Dyson, Prebendary of Sarum, (the Lord Bishop being unavoidably absent), IVIr. Kemble moved thanks to the mayor and corporation, whose welcome had been shown in the hospitahty so generously tendered to the Institute on their arrival at the banquet given in the Council Chamber ; in which, also by their kind permis- sion, the Meetings had taken place. He also proposed a suitable acknow- ledgment to Sir Edmund and Lady Antrobus, for the hospitalities which graced the visit of the Society to Stonehenge. The Dean of Hekeford then detailed the progress of the investigations carried on under the direction of the Institute, with the important assistance gi-atuitously rendered by Mr. JMandford, whose skill in civil engineering had been signally evinced in the undertaking. The Dean proposed a vote of hearty thanks to Mr. Jones, the proprietor of Silbury, who had most liberally given his permission for the work, to the tenant, Mr. Kemm, to Mr. Palkner of Devizes, and Mr. Blandford, through whose valuable concurrence this inter- esting undertaking had been achieved. — Mr. Talbot then moved thanks to A report of ihc progress of the excavation, with a section, is in preparation for the next Journal.