108 The Fiftieth General Meeting. 
ease in the days before the enclosure, when a dozen wagonnettes 
and brakes drawn up close to the stones, and large parties of 
trippers playing hide-and-seek amongst them, to say nothing of 
paper and ginger beer bottles, formed the “wild and impressive 
surroundings.” 
After adjourning to the neighbouring barn for an extremely 
welcome cup of tea, the party rejoined their carriages, and whilst 
one of the brakes made for Salisbury, the others journeyed back 
to Devizes, and so the “Jubilee Meeting” of 1905 came to an 
end. Throughout the proceedings the weather had been on the 
whole excellent, neither too hot nor too cold, and everyone agreed 
that the meeting was one of the most successful, as it was also the 
most numerously-attended that the Society has held for many 
years. For very much of this success we have to thank the 
untiring attention and care of Mr. B. H. Cunnington, who acted 
as Local Secretary, and upon whose shoulders the whole burden of 
the arrangements fell. We have also to thank the Mayor and 
Corporation of Devizes for the welcome they gave to the Society. 
Among the objects exhibited at the Conversaziones were the 
corporation maces, loving cup, and the Brittox Club punch bowl; 
a series of flint implements from Knowle, exhibited by Mr. B. H. 
Cunnington aud Mr. 8. B. Dixon; a couple of sickles, one from 
Ireland and the other from Brittany, showing the survival of the 
teeth on one side of the blade, exhibited by the Rev. C. V. Goddard ; — 
and a good copy of the curious Wootton Bassett election print 
entitled :— 
‘©A Representation of the Procession at Wootton Bassett, in which nearly — 
the whole of the Electors attended their Member Mr. Walsh on his return 
home,” 
on Wednesday, February 3rd, 1808, exhibited together with the 
objects mentioned in his paper by Mr. A. D. Passmore. 
‘It is to be hoped that the success of the Meeting will bear fruit 
in cordial support from the Members of the Society, as well as 
the outside public, of the scheme for the enlargement of the 
Museum at Devizes, the urgent need for which Members could see 
-for themselves in the congested state to which the very valuable 
collections of the Society are reduced in the present buildings. 
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