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THE NINETEENTH MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archeological and Natural Wistory Society, 
HELD AT TROWBRIDGE, 
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 1th, 8th, and 9th of August, 1872. 
PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 
Cuartzs Prnruppocks, Esq. 
=2HE proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Society 
é opened at the Court Hall, Trowbridge, at one o’clock, on 
Wednesday, August 9th, the President of the Society, Charles 
Penruddocke, Esq., in the chair; who called upon one of the Honorary 
Secretaries, Rev. A. C. Smith, to read the Report of last year’s 
proceedings and our present position, which that gentleman did as 
follows :— 
REPORT FOR 1872. 
«The Committee of the Wiltshire Archeological and Natural 
History Society offers its Report of the operations of the Society 
during the last twelvemonths with singular satisfaction, inasmuch 
as it is at length able to announce that the acquisition of suitable 
premises for a library and museum at Devizes has been effected, and 
that the funds requisite for their purchase have, through the liberality 
of kind friends been collected, and that the buildings are now in 
course of alteration and preparation for their requirements, and that 
the Society will very shortly be placed in the happy position of 
occupying apartments of their own, where they can more satisfactorily 
_ bestow their collections, and where the members of the Society can 
more conveniently examine the Archeological and Natural History 
treasures, and consult the books in their possession. 
“ Your Committee desires to recall to your recollection that one of 
the principal objects which the Society had in view from its inau- 
_ guration in 1853, was, by its first Rule, ‘to preserve, by the 
~ formation of a library and museum, illustrations of the history of the 
