134 The Twenty-first General Meeting. 
Calne, subsequently a canon of Salisbury, and finally Archbishop of 
Canterbury. r 
Other toasts followed, aceording to custom. In reply to the health 
of the Mayor (Mr. Reynolds), who had warmly welcomed the Society 
to Devizes, and done everything in his power to facilitate the work 
of the Museum, that gentleman said, that although he did not 
pretend to a knowledge of archeology, there were many matters 
connected with the past in which he took an interest. He had 
noticed, and perhaps many present might have done so, the great 
desire which any one who had had the misfortune to lose a dear 
friend exhibited to preserve some memorial of him, and to remember 
what he was like; and the same feeling animated them with regard 
to their remote ancestors—they all desired to know how they lived, 
how they loved, how they fought, &c., all of which would, but for 
such societies as this, be a dead book. In this respect they were 
constantly meeting, as it were, with an oyster, with no knife well 
tempered enough to open it, and if the archeologists had done no 
other good, the busy, money-making people were under a great 
debt of gratitude to them for what they had done in this 
respect. 
The officers of the Society, President, Secretaries, Secretary to 
the meeting, were all duly honoured ; as were also the ladies, whose 
kind assistance at our archzological meetings adds in no small 
degree to their pleasure, and the company adjourned to the Town 
Hall for 
THE CONVERSAZIONE. 
The President took the chair at 7.30, p.m., when the following 
papers were read in succession: “The History of the Parish of 
Potterne,” by the Rev. Prebendary Jones, F.S.A.; “On the Porch 
House of Potterne,” by the Rev. A. C. Smith; “On Wolfhall and 
the Seymours,’ by the Rev. Canon Jackson, F.S.A. It will be 
unnecessary to make any extracts or to comment on these papers, 
as they will all appear in due course in the pages of the Magazine. 
Tea and coffee and other refreshments were liberally provided by 
the Mayor and Corporation, who left nothing undone which could 
conduce to the comfort or convenience of the archeologists. 
