r in actual and regular attendance was
somewhat reduced as the years went onward. How it fared with the Old
Testament Company I cannot precisely state. Bishop Harold Browne, after
his accession to the See of Winchester, was only able to attend twice or
three times after the year 1875. In that year Bishop Thirlwall died, and
Bishop Ollivant ceased to attend, but remained a corresponding member
till his death in 1882. Vacancies, I am informed, were filled up till
October 1875, after which date no new members were added. The Company,
however, worked to the very end with great devotion and assiduity. The
revision occupied 794 days, and was completed in eighty-five sessions,
the greater part of which were for ten days each, at about six hours a
day.

I can speak a little more exactly in reference to the New Testament
Company. The time was shorter, and the changes in the composition of the
Company were fewer. At the end of the work a record was made out of the
attendances of the individual members {35}, from which it was easy to
arrive at the average attendance, which for the whole time was found to
be as much as sixteen each day. The number of sessions was 101 of four
days each, and one of three days, making a total of 407 days in all.
More than 1,200 days were thus devoted to the work of the revision of the
Authorised Versions of both Testaments. The first revision, in the case
of the New Testament lasted about six years; the second, two years and a
half. The remaining two years were spent in the consideration of various
details and reserved questions, and especially the consideration of the
suggestions, on our second revision, of the American Revisers, of whose
work and connexion with the English Revisers it will now be convenient to
speak.

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The idea of a connexion with America in the great work of revision was
nearly as early as the movements in Convocation of which an account has
been given. It appears that, in the session of Convocation in July,
1870, it was moved in the Lower House by Lord Alwyne Compton (afterwards
and now Bishop of Ely) that the committee of Convocation should be
instructed to invite the co-operation of some American divines. This was
at once agreed to by both Houses, and measures were taken to open
communications with America. The correspondence was opened by the acting
Chairman of the New Testament Company (the present writer) in a letter t