WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE, 
‘¢MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.’’—Ovid, 
. THE TWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archeological & Natural History Society, 
HELD AT DEVIZES, 
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, September 8th, 9th, and 10th, 
1874. 
PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 
GasrieL Gorpnry, Esq., M.P. 
, S the Society this year celebrated the attainment of its 
as majority, and with the Annual Meeting combined the 
Inauguration of its new Museum and Library, the attendance of 
members and visitors was unusually large.! 
The Town Hall of Devizes having been kindly placed at the 
service of the Society, by the Mayor and Corporation, the pro- 
ceedings of the twenty-first Anniversary Meeting commenced at 
two o’clock on Tuesday, September 8th,in the Assembly Room, (which 
was completely filled,) under the presidency of G. Goldney, Esq.,M.P. 
Mr. Goupyey said the first business of the day was to ask Mr. 
Smith, one of the Secretaries, to read the Report, which he had no 
doubt would show the Society to be in a favourable condition, and 
be satisfactory to the members generally. 
The Rey. A. C. Surrn thereupon said he desired first to discharge 
a duty laid upon him by their Patron, the Marquis of Lansdowne, 
and to make excuse for his non-attendance that day. His Lordship 

1Jn preparing the following account of the Devizes Meeting, the Editor 
_ desires to acknowledge his obligations to the columns of the Devizes Gazette, 
Advertizer, and Independent, and also of the North Wilts Herald. 
VOL. XV.—NO. XLIV. oO 
