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or sleeping member), will, I am sure, convince you all that we 
have done well in coming to Salisbury in 1865. Two excursions 
have been plannéd—that to Stonehenge, which it is proposed to 
approach in a different manner: the new route will combine 
many fresh points of interest. Mr. Duke’s house at Lake, 
and the interesting museum which it contains, will of itself make 
this excursion a most pleasing and instructive one. On the second 
day we have proposed to take you down the Chalk Valley (never 
before visited by us), where Bishopstone Church and Norrington 
House—one of the finest specimens of the old manor house in 
Wiltshire, the beauties of which Mr. J. H. Parker, of Oxford, has 
kindly undertaken to point out on the spot,—will ensure a goodly 
attendance. 
The noble Earl concluded his able address amidst general ap- 
F plause: and then called upon Mr. Gamsrer Parry to read a paper on 
Architectural Colouring; which that gentleman did to the great 
satisfaction of his audience; and which valuable contribution will 
be found in another part of the Magazine. 
Dr. H. P. Brackmore next read a very darefally prepared and 
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instructive paper on “‘ Recent discovery of Flint Implements in the 
Drift near Salisbury,” which will also be found in the Magazine. 
At its conclusion the President observed that the question just 
brought before the Society possessed a special interest, for at the 
Museum in St. Anns Street, was to be seen a most valuable series 
of these implements: moreover the subject had hitherto received 
little attention from the Society: but he now trusted to hear some 
remarks upon it from other parts of the room. 
Mr. Cunnineton thought the members of the Society might 
fairly congratulate themselves not only on the presence of so many 
striking geological phenomena in that immediate neighbourhood, 
but also on the fact that they had, in Dr. Blackmore, so able an 
historian of facts as they occurred. (Applause.) The neighbour- 
hood of Salisbury was, as Dr. Blackmore had said, one of the most 
remarkable spots in this country for the discovery of the imple- 
ments of ancient races of men. With one exception, the collection in 
the Salisbury Museum was the finest extant. M. Boucher de Perthes 
