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WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE, 
“MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.’—Ovid. 
THE THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archeological and Natural Bistory Society, 
HELD AT DEVIZES, 
July 30th and 31st, and August 1st, 1890. 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY, 
Lr.-Gen. A. Lanz Fox Pirt-Rivers, 
IN THE CHAIR. 
N 1880 the Society held its Annual Meeting at Devizes, in 
es conjunction with the British Archeological Association. 
The same town was selected as the meeting-place for 1890 mainly 
in consequence of the very great interest attaching to the excavations 
made in the Wansdyke by our President for the year, General 
Pitt -Rivers. 
The arrangements for the Meeting were carried out by a Com- 
mittee, of which the Mayor, Mr. Gillman, was the Chairman, and 
Mr. B. Howard Cunnington the Secretary—the latter gentleman 
undertaking the chief part of the work. 
The Town Hall, in which the Opening Meeting was held, had 
been excellently arranged for the purpose, the whole of the end of 
the room being hung with maps, plans, sections, and drawings 
illustrative of the papers to be read; of these a certain number 
_ were drawings or photographs of objects of interest connected with 
Mr. Penruddocke’s paper on Mrs. Jane Lane, others were excellent 
large-size drawings specially prepared by Mr. Bell for the elucidation 
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For many of the details of this account the Editor is indebted to the columns 
of the Devizes and Wilts Advertiser. 
