188 The Fifty-fourth General Meeting. 



On both evenings one of the large rooms at the Town Hall was 

 open whicli had been fitted up as a Museum, and contained the 

 remarkable series of Saurian bones which MR. A. D. PASSMORE 

 has collected from the Kinimeridge Clay beds of Swindon, some 

 of them of unique occurrence in England, as well as his collection 

 of bronze and Hint implements, urns, and other local antiquities, 

 including several fine 16th and 17th century swords, found in 

 the county. Mr. Story Maskelyiie kindly lent tlie Anglo-Saxon 

 objects found with interments at Bassett Down (Wilts Arch. 

 Mag., vol. xxviii., p. 104), Mr. Chandler sent a portrait of the 

 Aldbourne centenarian, William Wild, and the Eev. R. C. Prior 

 exhibited a good ruljbing of the remarkable incised figure 

 in Aldbourne Church. There were also a few other 

 exhibitors, but the great bulk of the collections — archceological 

 and geological — were those of Mr. Passmore, to whom great 

 credit is due for the excellent way in which they were here 

 exhibited. They formed, indeed, a distinguishing feature of the 

 Meeting, and no such collection of Saurian bones could be found 

 anywhere else in the county. 



FEIDAY, JULY 5th. 



The Members left the Market Place, Old Swindon, in brakes, at 

 9.15, and arriving at LYDIARD TREGOZE HOUSE at about 10.20 

 were most kindly received by LADY BOLINGBROKE and shown 

 the large and interesting collection of portraits of the St. John 

 family, with which the house is filled. After this the Members 

 proceeded to the Church, which closely adjoins the house, and 

 here as at all the Churches subsequently visited the REV. E. H. 

 GODDARD gave the chief pohits of the full notes which MR. C. E. 

 PONTING, F.S.A., had most kindly prepared for the Meeting, 

 Mr. Pouting himself being unable to be present. In some ways 

 this was the most interesting of the Churches visited this day, and 

 was certainly the least known to the bulk of the Members, few 

 of whom had seen it before. The remarkable series of iVtli century 

 tombs, the mural paintings discovered in 1901, when it was re- 

 stored under Mr. Ponting's direction, the interesting remains of 



