THE 



WILT SHIRE MAGA ZmE. 



"MULTOHirM MANIBUS GHANDE LEVATtTE ONUS," — Ovid. 



THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



aEiltsfjtre ^rcfjscolostcal anti iJ^Tatural f^tstors Soctetg, 



HELD AT THE TOWN HALL, HUNGERFORD, 

 Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, lUh, 17th, and I8th September, 



1867. 



PEESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 



Sir John Awdry. 



^HE Fourteenth Annual Meeting of the Society was held at 

 Hungerford. The number of those present was smaller 

 than on many previous occasions ; but the meeting was universally 

 acknowledged to be a thoroughly successful one. The proceedings 

 commenced at the Town Hall ; the lower portion of which was 

 devoted to the General Meeting, and the upper part to the Museum. 

 At two o'clock the President took the chair, and opened the 

 proceedings by calling upon the Rev. A. C. Smith, one of the 

 Honorary Secretaries, to read the Annual Report. 



REPORT FOR 1867. 

 " The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society has again the satisfaction of reporting favourably 

 of the present condition and future prospects of the Society. The 

 number of our members has considerably increased during the last 

 year — indeed, since this Society was formed we have never lost so 

 few of our body in any twelvemonths, by death, or withdrawal, or 

 removal from the county. Amongst the former of these, however, 

 we cannot pass over in silence the name of our second patron, the 

 late Marquis of Lansdowne, who, for the short period that inter- 



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