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but on having it so excellently and correctly arranged. For this the 
thanks of the Society were eminently due to Mr. Cunnington. 
There were three rooms in the Museum, each of which contained the 
germ of a perfect collection. The first was devoted to ethnography, 
and contained a collection of “savagery,” with other illustrations of 
that study, each one correctly described, and the localities mentioned. 
Then they had a place for the ‘ Paleolithic,” or old-stone, period, con- 
taining some of the earliest implements they were acquainted with ; 
and also the “ Neolithic ”—the new or rubbed stone—period. In the 
next room was a fair series to illustrate the bronze and the iron 
periods. The British pottery, too, was a good representative col- 
lection, and altogether the objects themselves and the arrangement 
were such as to make this a very valuable Museum and of great 
interest to the county. 
Mr. Merewetusr, Q.C., proposed, and Mr. Munk seconded, the 
re-election of the Secretaries, the Committee, and the other officers 
of the Society. 
Tue Presipent then addressed the meeting. He said he was now 
called upon to take his part in the day’s proceedings, but he did so 
with great diffidence after the able and eloquent speech of Mr. 
Bouverie. Although Mr. Bouverie had expressed himself as wanting 
in knowledge as regards archeology, he had nevertheless shewn that 
he was conversant with those subjects in which all Wiltshiremen 
must feel a special interest. He (Mr. Goldney) had just returned 
from Scotland, where similar meetings to this had lately been held, 
and he was pleased to say that at those gatherings the same anxiety 
had been manifested with regard to the preservation of the records 
of the country. He feared he should prove a very inefficient 
President as compared with those who had preceded him in the office, 
but he was thankful to have such aid as would be afforded by Canon 
Jackson, by the able Secretaries, Mr. Smith and Mr. Cunnington, 
and other gentlemen connected with the Society. 
At a time when science was making such rapid strides in every di- 
. rection, it was especially incumbent upon them to cherish a regard for 
the history of the past, as Mr. Bouverie had told them ; to preserve 
some record of old institutions, the habits and customs, and laws of 
