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proposed that three clieei-s be L,'iveu to the Mayor of Southiiniptou, whose birthday it happeued to be. Tiiis was of coiu'se complied with. The folluwiug is the address of the Corporation uf Southatnpton to the Institute: — To the President and Menibere of the Royal Archajological Institute of Uroat liritiiin and Ireland. &IV LoilDS AND UENTLEMEN, We, the Mayor, Aldermen, and bur- gesses of tiie town and county of the town of Southampton, in Council assembled, cheerfully welcome your Society ujjou the occasion of your holding your Annual Meeting in Southami»titn. We believe the many and varied historical associations in and in the neighljourhood of Soutliamptou will afford you a pleasing opportunity of oVttaining mucli valuable historical information connected witli the early history of this town and county. We trust your visit to Southampton will be in eveiy respect agreeable to your Society, as it will be to the inliabitants of the town and neigli- Itonrhood. We desire to express our earnest hope that you will have every reason to bo gratified witli the decision made by youi* Society in selecting this town for your Annual Meeting. Given under our Common Seal at South- (.Se'il.) amptou, this 1st day of August, i>7'2. Friday, August 2. At 9 .v.M. the general meeting of Members was held in the reading- room of the Hartley Institution, the llev. J. Fuller Kussell in the Chair. Mr. liurtt, J/on. aSVc, read the balance-sheet for the year lf<71 (see p. 2'Ja) and the Annual Report for the past year, as follows: — Report of the Central Committee of the Royal Arclucological Institute for the year 1871-72. " Your Cctmmittce have many gratifving circumstances to refer to in relati(»n to the general atlairs of the Institute. " 'I'he great success of the hist Annual Meeting of the Institute, the first which lias been hehl by the Society within the limits of the rrinci|iality of Wales, calls f<tr the fii-st expression of satisfaction on tiie part of the Committee. On that occa.sion the numbei"s attending the meeting were much larger, and the attendance of distinguished pei"sons more couHidenible than at any ])revious meeting for many yeain; llie chainictcr of the memoira and discijurses submitted to the attention and Kturly of the memberH was very alileand interesting; the reception of tiio iiiemliei's ami visitors by the inhabitantsof ('ardilf and of the surrounding country was of the tnost hospitable and cordial chariu-ter, and tiie financial result t){ the .Meeting to the jiecuniary con<lition of the Insfiluto was very advantageous. Several very interestin;^ memoirs contributed to that .Meeting have appeared in the " Jt)urnal " of the Institute, and have done much to Hustain the high character of the pulilishe(I proceedings of the Society. ".

experiment, t(j which, after sonio hesitation, the (.'ouncil fell