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the Society, and therefore its real representative, to speak on its 
behalf. 
The Rev. A. C. Smiru, in responding, said they went to different 
parts of the county year after year. and gave a great deal of trouble 
to their friends at the various places they visited. There was no 
more interesting district in the whole of Wiltshire than the neigh- 
bourhood of Calne. They were not only within the district of 
Avebury, which had the largest heathen temple in the world, but 
they had also running through a portion of the county Wans Dyke, 
which was an extraordinary feature in the locality, and which had 
certainly not been examined as he hoped it would be some day. 
Then at Silbury they had the largest artificial mound in Europe, 
and throughout the whole district there were numerous objects of 
interest to the archeologist. Before sitting down he proposed “ The 
health of the Local Secretaries.” 
The Rev. W. C. PrenpErtatH, in responding, referred to the 
pleasure it gave him to perform the duties, and expressed his great 
indebtedness to the assistance he had received from his colleague, 
Mr. Wilkins. 
Mr. Witxins also returned thanks, and said that he and his col- 
league had both tried to do their very best, and they were amply 
repaid by the success which had already attended the proceedings, 
and which they hoped would still continue. 
Tue PReEsipENT said they would be pleased to hear that sixteen 
new Members had joined this year. 
This concluded this part of the proceedings, and the company at 
once adjourned to the Town Hall, where a 
CONVERSAZIONE 
was held, the President again occupying the chair. 
The Rev. Canon Jackson delighted a large audience with one 
of his admirable papers on “Calne,” giving as full an account as 
could be gathered about the history of the town and neighbourhood : 
and interspersing the more solid historical details with many amusing 
episodes, after the inimitable manner of that veteran archeologist. 
