WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE 
‘‘ WULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.’’—Ovid. 
THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archeological & Natural Wistory Society, 
HELD AT SALISBURY, 
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August 23rd, 2Ath, and 25th, 
1876. 
PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 
Siz Jonn Lupzocx, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., &., &c. 
> Meeting of the Society this year! was attended bya larger 
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number of Members than on any previous occasion, attracted 
ubtless in part by the charms of the Cathedral city, and the pro- 
verbial hospitality of its inhabitants; but still more (as we con- 
fidently believe), by the desire, worthy of all true Archzologists, to 
hear what would be said about Stonehenge and our Wiltshire monu- 
ments of antiquity, by so renowned a leader in the archeological 
world as Sir John Lubbock, and other gentlemen of note, who were 
expected to be present. Nor did any return disappointed, for though 
Stonehenge remains as great a mystery as ever, and is still, as here- 
tofore, open to the theories of the imaginative; a great many 
opinions (sometimes contradictory to one another) were delivered, 
and much very interesting discussion ensued. 
The Council Chamber having been placed at the disposal of the 
Society by the kindness of the Mayor, the proceedings began at two 
o'clock on Wednesday, August 23rd, under the presidency of Sir 
1JIn preparing the following account of the Salisbury Meeting the Editor 
desires to acknowledge the assistance he has derived from the columns of the 
Sulisbury and Winchester Journal, and the Wiltshire County Mirror. 
VOL. XVII.—NO. XLIX, B 
