4 The Thirty-Siath General Meeting. 
this interesting earthwork. We are confident that the Members of 
the Society generally would desire to join the Committee in cordially 
thanking the General for this great work of excavation, which he 
is carrying on entirely at his own expense (for he generously declines 
any help from the Society), and we shall all await the result of his 
further researches with no little interest. 
“In conclusion the Committee again invites the active co- 
operation of Members of the Society in all parts of the county, 
reminding them how very much yet remains to be investigated and 
brought to light, and what a large field of enquiry yet offers itself 
on all sides. For though your committee cannot but be aware that 
the Society has done something towards elucidating some of the 
obscure details of the history of the county, and calling attention 
to some branches of its natural history, it is profoundly sensible 
that it has as yet only touched the border of these subjects, and 
that there is still a great work to be carried on before we can be 
said to have mastered the antiquities as well as the natural history 
and the general history of Wiltshire.” 
The Rev. W. P. S. Bryeuaw, in proposing the adoption of the 
Report, said that he hoped that the holding of the Meeting at 
Westbury would lead to a considerable increase of Members from 
that neighbourhood. At present, he thought, the Westbury district 
was not at all adequately represented in the Society. He thought 
that the thanks of the Meeting were due to Mr. Smith, for the 
pains and trouble he had taken in the work of the Society during 
the past year, and in drawing up the Report they had just heard. 
He also thought that the thanks of the Meeting ought to be con- 
veyed to General Pitt-Rivers, for the very valuable work he had 
undertaken in the excavation of Wansdyke. Mr. H. J. F. Swayne 
having seconded the motion the Report was carried. 
On the motion of the Cuarrman, seconded by Mr. E. O. Bouveriz, 
the whole of the Officers of the Society were re-elected to office. 
The Cuairman then called on the Rev. Canon Jackson to read 
“Some Notes on Westbury History.” It is needless to say that 
this paper was listened to with the greatest attention, and that at 
its conclusion a vote of thanks to Canon Jackson, proposed by the 
