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which the Meeting of 1907 has been taken up by the authorities 

 and the Local Committee of Swindon, there seems no reason to 

 doubt that this year's Meeting will also prove a conspicuous 

 successs. The Committee liope that it may result especially in 

 a considerable increase in our membership in the Swindon neigh- 

 bourhood." 



The Chairman, in moving the adoption of the Eeport, commended 

 the appeal for funds to purchase portions of the land on which 

 the " G-rey Wethers " lie to the Meeting and to Wiltshiremen 

 generally. They were an interesting feature of Wiltshire, and 

 were being destroyed rapidly ; here was an opportunity of saving 

 a part of two well-known collections of them for posterity. Mr. 

 Maskelyne went on to thank the Secretaries and other Officers of 

 the Society for the time and trouble which they spent upon the 

 Society. 



The Rev. E. H. Goddard, in reply, said it was a pleasure to 

 work for the Society, and in a small way he was glad to regard 

 work done for the Society as work done by Wiltshiremen for the 

 County of Wilts. 



Mr. Goddard then described the two areas in Piggle Dean and 

 Lockeridge Dean which it was proposed to purchase and preserve. 

 He said that it was a matter which should be of interest not merely 

 to the Marlborough neighbourhood but the whole county, and in- 

 deed to geologists generally throughout England. It was a reason- 

 able supposition that the sarsens of Stonehenge came from this 

 immediate locality, and very possibly from Lockeridge Dean itself. 

 He also read a letter from Dr. H. P. Blackmore, of Salisbury, 

 well known as one of the leading geological authorities in 

 Wiltshire, warmly commending tlie action of the associated 

 societies in the endeavour to preserve some samples, at least, 

 of the sarsens in their natural condition. Mr. Goddard also read 

 a list of subscriptions already promised to tlic fund, amounting to 

 about £130, and mentioned that Mr. Alec Taylor, the new owner 

 of the property, had met the representatives of the Society in a 

 very friendly spirit, and had at once declared his intention of 



