ON November the 11th, 1858, at the General Meeting of the Shropshire and North Wales Natural History and Antiquarian Society, held at the Museum, Shrewsbury, the President, Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P., proposed that excavations should be commenced at Wroxeter. He had written to the Duke of Cleveland, and obtained his Grace’s consent to do so. He also made the very liberal offer to give fifty guineas towards the expenses, provided that fifty other gentlemen could be found willing to subscribe one guinea each. A Committee was formed, consisting of the following noblemen and gentlemen to carry on the work:— The Right Hon. the Earl of Powis, Powis Castle Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., Decker Hill R. A. Slaney, Esq., M.P., Walford Manor Rev. B. H. Kennedy, D.D., Shrewsbury Rev. E. Egremont, Wroxeter Rev. R. W. Eyton, Ruyton, Shiffnal Rev. H. M. Scarth, Bathwick Samuel Ashdown, Esq., Uppington W. H. Bayley, Esq., Shrewsbury William F. F. Foulkes, Esq., Stanley Place, Chester Henry Johnson, Esq., M.D., Hon. Sec., Shrewsbury George Stanton, Esq., Shrewsbury Albert Way, Esq., Worham Manor Samuel Wood, Esq., Shrewsbury Thomas Wright, Esq., F.S.A., Brompton A Metropolitan Committee has since been thought desirable, and held its first meeting August 3rd. It consists of the following distinguished noblemen and gentlemen:— The Right Hon. Earl Stanhope, President of the Royal Society of Antiquaries The Right Hon. Viscount Hill, Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire The Right Hon. Lord Braybrooke The Right Hon. Lord Talbot de Malahide The Right Hon. Lord Lindsay The Right Hon. Lord Newport, M.P. The Right Hon. the Lord Chief Baron Beriah Botfield, Esq., M.P. The Hon. Rowland C. Hill, M.P. R. Monckton Milnes, Esq., M.P. C. Octavius S. Morgan, Esq., M.P. H. Danby Seymour, Esq., M.P. W. Tite, Esq., M.P. C. C. Babington, Esq., F.R.S., St. John’s Coll., Cambridge The Rev. E. L. Barnwell, General Secretary of the Cambrian Archæological Association Sir John P. Boileau, Bart., F.R.S., V.P.S.A. The Rev. Dr. Bosworth, F.R.S., F.S.A., Professor of Anglo-Saxon, Oxford The Rev. Dr. J. Collingwood Bruce, F.S.A., Hon. Sec. of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne Talbot Bury, Esq., F.R.I.B.A., A.I.C.E. Benjamin Bond Cabbell, Esq., F.R.S., F.S.A. Robert Chambers, Esq., Edinburgh Sir James Clarke, Bart., F.R.S. James Dearden, Esq., F.S.A. C. Wentworth Dilke, Esq. J. Hepworth Dixon, Esq., F.S.A. Joseph Durham, Esq., F.S.A. The Rev. E. Egremont, Vicar of Wroxeter F. W. Fairholt, Esq., F.S.A. Augustus Guest, Esq., L.L.D., F.S.A. S. Carter Hall, Esq., F.S.A. J. O. Halliwell, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.S. The Rev. C. H. Hartshorne Fredk. Hindmarsh, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., Hon. Sec. The Rev. T. Hugo, F.S.A. Dr. Henry Johnson, Hon. Sec. of the Excavation Committee, Shrewsbury Joseph Mayer, Esq., F.S.A., Liverpool