12 The Seventeenth General Meeting. 
Stevens, and we shall have productions from the able pens of Mr. 
Cunnington and Dr. Blackmore. On Friday, Dr. Blackmore and 
Mr. Stevens have generously asked the members to lunch at the 
Blackmore Museum, where a most interesting paper will be delivered 
by the Rev. Canon Greenwell, on “The Quarrying of Flint for the 
Manufacture of Flint Implements;” and a paper by the Rev. 
W. C. Lukis, “On the Lines of Stones and Circles of Carnac, in 
Brittany.” We close the day by a visit to Longford Castle, which 
we are enabled to see through the kindness of Lord Radnor. It is 
a singular edifice, built by Sir Thomas Gorges, from a Danish 
model. It contains many choice antiquities and magnificent paint- 
ings. I trust that I have not trespassed on your time, and that 
you will forgive my inability to deal with the subjects into which 
we are met to inquire. I will not detain you any longer, further 
than to introduce to you the Rev. A. C. Smith, one of the Secre- 
taries, who will read the annual report of the Society. 
The Rev. A. C. Smrru said that before he read the Report, which 
was generally one of the dullest and driest of documents, he was 
sure he was only expressing the feelings of the meeting if he pro- 
posed a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Penruddocke for his very 
admirable address. Nothing could more conclusively show the 
discretion and wisdom of the Council in proposing Mr. Penruddocke 
as their President for the next three years; and he heartily con- 
gratulated the Society on its choice. He then proceeded to read 
THE REPORT FOR 1870. 
«The Committee of the Wiltshire Archeological and Natural 
History Society, in presenting its annual report of the progress 
during the past year and present position of that body, desires to 
congratulate the members on the continued advance and general 
well-being of the Society. The number of names now on the books 
amounts to the goodly figure 334, which is a considerable increase 
since the meeting at Chippenham last year. 
“Your Committee has at the same time to deplore the loss of 
some of our oldest members, and amongst these should be enumerated 
the late Earl of Radnor, and the Rev. Richard Crawley ; as well as 
