92 The Forty-Fifth General Meeting. 
also exhibited good specimens of circular pack-horse bells, marked 
R. W. (probably R. Wells, of Aldbourne), and apparently of 
seventeenth century date—a man-trap—watchman’s rattle—and 
an interesting sword, found in a barn at Stratton, of Civil War 
date, with ‘“ Andrea Ferrara ’”’ on the blade. The collection included 
a considerable number of Saurian remains from the Kimeridge — 
Clay of Swindon: vertebre, jaws, and limb bones of Icthyosaurus, 
Pleiosaurus, Plesiosaurus, and Teleosaurus—the most notable speci- 
men amongst them being a very large bone, as to which authorities 
have not as yet been able to decide, either the species of the beast, 
or the position in its body, to which it belonged. Altogether the 
collection is a remarkable one and shows what may be done by 
anyone who takes the trouble to keep his eyes open. 
THURSDAY, JULY 71x. 
The first day’s excursion was chiefly outside the borders of the 
County of Wilts, but the second day’s was chiefly within it. 
Leaving the Goddard Arms at 9.35, a small party of sixteen 
proceeded to STANTON FITZWARREN CHURCH, which still retains 
many of the features of an early Norman or Pre-Conquest Church, 
though the ‘“‘ Saxon” proportions of the nave, which were formerly 
so striking, have been swept away by the recent large addition to 
the west end of the Church, an addition which may, perhaps, have 
been necessary, but is none the less regrettable. Notes on the, 
building were read by Mr. Ponriye, who acted as the Society’s 
guide throughout this second day’s excursion. The Vicar, the 
Rev. W. C. Masrers, followed with some really excellent notes 
on the various alterations and destructions which were perpetrated 
during the “restoration”? of 1865. It is much, indeed, to be 
wished that all clergy would as diligently seek out and put on 
record the exact facts as to the alterations which their Churches 
have suffered. There was only just time for some few of the — 
members to give a hurried glance into the Vicarage, where a fine — 
collection of portraits by Lely and others tempted them to stay — 
longer. The start, however, had been late, and the whole pro- 
