Sir Stephen R. Glynne, Bart., M.P., F.S.A., Hawarden Castle, Flintshire.
Henry Gally Knight, Esq., M.F.
The Very Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe. D.D., Dean of Exeter.
The Very Rev. Charles Scott Luxmore, M.A., Dean of St. Asaph.
James Heywood Markland, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A., Bath.
The Very Rev. John Merewether, D.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., Dean of Hereford.
George Ormerod, Esq., D.C.L., F.R.S., F.S.A., Sedbury Park, Chepstow.
The Very Rev. George Peacock, D.D., Dean of Ely.
Rev. Frederick C. Plumptre, D.D., Master of University College, Oxford.
Rev. J. L. Richards, D.D., Rector of Exeter College, Oxford.
Rev. J. H. Todd, D.D., Trinity College, Dublin.
Rev. Wm. Whewell, D.D., V.P.R.S., F.S.A., Master of Trinity Coll., Cambridge.
Rev. Robert Willis, M.A., F.R.S., Jacksonian Professor, Cambridge.
The Mayor proposed, and the Rev. E. James seconded a motion that W. Burge, Esq., the Recorder of Winchester, and the Rev. C. H. Hartshorne should be appointed auditors for the ensuing year.—Carried unanimously.
The President said—The next business we have to consider, is the place of meeting for the ensuing year. We were last year well received at the first archiepiscopal see, viz., Canterbury, and the committee and myself think it right that we should next year take York. York possesses peculiar advantages: its Minster is second to no cathedral in the kingdom, and there are ruins of a magnificent abbey within the very walls of the city. At York there are also the remains of a castle; I do not speak of the minor objects in which the neighbourhood abounds, or of the architectural magnificence of Beverley Minster, of Selby or Rivaulx Abbeys; for Yorkshire is indeed a sort of monopolizer of fine buildings; a county three times as large as any other county in England, it has more than three times the attractions of any other. I call upon you to accede to the proposal of the committee for the next meeting to take place at York. It may appear to you perhaps that I am advocating a submission to the will of the committee, tending to make them autocratical or despotic; but I think, that under existing circumstances, it is better for us to put as much confidence in the committee as possible, and it is as well to do so at all times, for there are often reasons presenting themselves to a committee which it would be invidious to bring before the public. I ask you now to put that confidence in the committee, and to agree on York as the next place of our meeting.
Carried unanimously.
J. H. Markland, Esq., then read an invitation from the Archdeacon of Bath, in the name of the Dean and Chapter of Wells, for the Institute to meet at an early year in their cathedral town, to which the following reply was made. "The Archæological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland has received with much satisfaction the obliging communication of the Venerable Archdeacon Brymer, expressing the readiness of the Dean and Chapter of Wells to receive the Institute in that city. The Institute is
