142 The Fifty -second General Meeting. 



It was now time to take advantage of THE MASTER AND 

 MRS. FLETCHER'S invitation to tea in the charming gardens of 

 the Lodge, where a hirge party assembled and did full justice to 

 their hospitality. 



THE DINNER, at the Ailesbury Arms, to which thirty-eight 

 sat down, followed ; and at 8.30 the Members assendjled to the 

 number of forty-two for THE EVENING MEETING, at the Town 

 Hall, where MR. MEDLICOTT again occupied the chair. The first 

 item was the paper — or, rather, lecture — on " Eoliths," by the 

 REV. H. G. 0. KENDALL, Rector of Winterbourne Basset, who 

 set fortli the evidence for the existence of Eolithic man and his 

 works, not only in the plateau gravels of Kent, but on Hackpen 

 Hill, in Wiltshire, in a singularly lucid and attractive manner. It 

 is a subject which has not been touched on at our meetings before, 

 and one whicli it is not easy to treat in a " popular " way, that 

 shall at the same time be thorough, and it is no mean praise to 

 say that that Mr. Kendall succeeded in doing this. 



MR. W. HEWARD BELL, in thanking Mr. Kendall for his 

 discourse, spoke warmly of the excellent manner of its delivery, 

 and professed himself more than half converted to the belief in 

 Eoliths himself. 



CANON WORDSWORTH followed with his paper, entitled "THE 

 DEATH, AT MARLBOROUGH, OF ROBERT CECIL, FIRST EARL 

 OF SALISBURY." Tlie hour, however, was so late that the reader 

 passed over the first half of his paper entirely, and gave the latter 

 half alone, containing an account of the Priory of St. Margaret, at 

 Marlborough, and its possible remains. THE REV. E. H. GODDARD, 

 in proposing a vote of thanks to CANON WORDSWORTH, expressed 

 the hope that the Society might have the advantage in the future 

 of more of his excellent work in the Magazine than they had had 

 in the past. MR. R. MERRIMAN, in seconding, said a few words 

 as the owner of the building vvldcli had been spoken of, and with 

 a reply from Canon Wordsworth the proceedings came to an end, 

 and the Members went home to bed. 



During the evening the Eev. E. H. Goddard exhibited to those 

 who were botanically minded, fresh Wiltshire specimens of two 



