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the company would drink the health of the Bishop of Norwich, whose talentsas an ornithologist and entomologist were well known. The toast wasdrunk with great fervour, and the company, after exploring the old house,‘ treacling the very boards which Bay had trodden, and looking perhapson trees and plants which Bay had admired,’ returned to the WhiteHart Inn, Witham, where, about four o’clock, twenty gentlemen sat downto dinner, Edward Eorster, Esq. in the chair, and B. Taylor, Esq. acting asvice-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 apleasing, and, doubtless, it will be a long-cherished recollection of the day’sexcursion.

"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 Bemains of Bay,’ which will, doubtless, betreasured by Mr. P. as an interesting memento of the visit, and handeddown to his latest posterity .”—Chelmsford Chronicle, June 1845.]