THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"MULIOBUM MANIBTJS GRANDE LEVATTJE 0NT7S," — Ovid. 



THE SIXTEENTH GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



5iEiltsijirc ^rcl^acolostcal anti Natural l^istorg ^octetg, 



HELD AT CHIPPENHAM, 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 1th, %th, and 9th September, 



1869. 



peesident oe xhe meexikg, 



Sir John Wither Awbry. 



^HE proceedings of the Sixteenth Anniversary Meeting of the 

 ^i Society, opened at the New Hall, Chippenham, on Tuesday, 

 September 7th, at 1.30 p.m., by the President of the Society, Sir 

 John Awdry, taking the chair, and calling upon the Rev. A. 0. 

 Smith (one of the General Secretaries,) to read 



THE REPORT. 



"The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society has once more the satisfaction of reporting on this 

 the seventeenth anniversary of its formation, the continued pros- 

 perity of the Society. The number of names on the books now 

 amounts to 317, being slightly above the average at which we 

 usually stand, and almost exactly the same as last year, when the 

 number was recorded as 313. 



" Your Committee has at the same time to lament the loss of 

 several influential members, who by the interest they evinced at 

 our annual meetings, or by their contributions to the pages of our 

 Magazine, deserve special mention in this report. Amongst these 

 we beg to specify the Rev. Canon Prower, of Purton ; Mr. Bendry 

 Brooke, of Malmesbury; and, above all, the late Bishop of Salisbury, 



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