THE 
WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE, 
“MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR oNUS.’—Ovid. 
THE THIRTY-EIGHTH GENERAL MEETING 
OF THE 
Wiltshire Archwological and Natural History Society, 
HELD AT WILTON, 
July 29th, 30th, and 31st, 1891. 
THE PRESIDENT OF THE SOCIETY, 
Lr.-Gen. Pitt-Rivers, D.C.L., F.R,S., F.S.A., &c., 
IN THE CHAIR. 
AQQULTON, where the Society had met twenty-one years ago— 
I) in 1870—was decided on as the place of the Annual Meeting 
“im 1891 as being the nearest town in Wiltshire to Rushmore, which 
the Society had been invited to visit and inspect by their President, 
Gen. Pitt-Rivers. The weather had been “ turble casalty ” for some 
time, and it did not clear up for the Meeting—so that doubtless 
many who would otherwise have attended were deterred from doing 
80. Indeed nothing could have been more cheerless than the after- 
noon of the opening day, July 29th, when the Annual Meeting was 
held at the Town Hall. Steady rain and a very small attendance 
seemed to be the fate of the Meeting. 
_ Tue Prasrpent, having taken the chair, called on Mr. Mepticotr 
to read 
THE REPORT, 
which was as follows :— 
“The Committee desires to report to the Members of the Society 
‘that it continues to prosper. 
F ~ “Though year by year we lose old and valued Members, yet we 
“continue to add new names to our list to take their places, and, it 
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