_ WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 
“MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS.”—Ovid. 
THE THIRTY-THIRD GENERAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archeological anv Natural Pistory Socicty, 
HELD AT SWINDON, 
Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August 10th, 11th, and 12th, 
1886. 
PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 
Nevin Story Masxetyne, Esq., M.P. 
=HE SOCIETY for the third time selected Swindon as the 
centre of its Annual Meeting in 1886, having previously 
visited that town in 1860 and 1873: and on Tuesday, August 10th, 
the Members and their friends assembled in the Town Hall, at 
2.30, p.m., with the President of the Society in the chair; sundry 
Members of the Society having previously visited the celebrated 
Locomotive and Carriage Works of the Great Western Railway 
Company, over which they had been conducted, by the kind per- 
mission of the Manager, Major Dean. 
The Preswenr opened the proceedings by calling on the Rev. 
A. C. Suri (one of the Honorary Secretaries), to read the 
REPORT FOR 1886. 
“The Committee of the Wiltshire Archxological and Natural 
History Society has but a short report to offer to its Members of 
the condition of the Society during a somewhat uneventful year, 
which year, however, though not marked by any great efforts on 
the part of the Society, will be found to show a fair amount of work 
done in the several departments. First, however, must be mentioned, - 
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