112 The Thirty-third General Meeting. 
The Presipent then gave an address on “ Barbury Castle,” into 
which we will not enter here, as it will be found 7m extenso in another 
part of this number of the Magazine. At its conclusion, and on 
the subsidence of the hearty applause with which it was received, 
the Rev. Canon Jackson proposed a vote of thanks to the President 
for his able and interesting address; and in doing so said what the 
Society wanted among its Members was more men of the stamp 
of the President, who, having taken a thorough and practical 
interest in the locality in which he resided, had thus been able to so 
accurately present to them the distinguishing features of the place 
he had so well spoken of. They were exceedingly obliged to their 
President for the information he had given them. The Rev. W.C. 
PLENDERLEATH seconded the motion, and the vote having been ac- 
corded with acclamation, the Prustpent expressed his acknowledg- 
ments for the kindness which had been shown him, and said if he 
had succeeded in fishing up anything which could throw any light 
on what had taken place in past history he was more than satisfied. 
He wished, however, to thank in particular his friend Mr. H. Kemble, 
of Overtown—to whom his hearers owed more than to himself—for 
his kindness in helping him in all sorts of ways and in providing 
him with a fine ordnance map, on which the actual sites of the places 
he had mentioned more particularly in his paper on “ Barbury 
Castle” were plainly marked. 
This concluded the proceedings of the morning Meeting, on 
which the company adjourned to the Quarries, where PRorgssor 
JONES pointed out the different strata and the characteristic features 
of various fossils; and others to the Church and other interesting 
spots in Old Swindon. 
The Anniversary Dinner took place at the Goddard Arms Hotel, 
at 6, p.m., the President of the Society in the chair, when the usual 
loyal, patriotic, and other toasts were duly given and responded to. 
A Conversazione was held at the Town Hall, at 8, p.m., at which 
the President occupied the chair, when, in the absence of the Vicar 
of Swindon (the Rev. H. Armstrong Hall), who had prepared a 
paper on “Our Oak Chest,” the Rev. J. S. Puckripex, Curate of 
Swindon, read the paper, which detailed various old records of parish 
