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Library at Devizes. Tut Prestpenr acknowledged that he agreed 
with Mr. Bell that the papers would have been better left in 
Wiltshire, but, on behalf of the Society of Antiquaries—to whom 
they now belonged—he thought he might say that every facility 
would be given to Wiltshiremen who wished to see or use those 
papers. 
The Secretaries and Officers of the Society having been re-elected, 
Tuer Presipent stated that the idea of raising some memorial to 
the late Canon Jackson, who had been so long and so closely con- 
nected with the Society, had been engaging the attention of the 
Committee, and it was proposed that it should take the form of an 
extension of the Society’s Museum at Devizes. They had valuable 
collections there which were much crowded together, and could not 
be exhibited properly for want of room. He thought there was no 
better means of promoting the study of and interest in archzology 
and natural history than by the establishment of good local museums. 
He moved the following resolution, “That a fund shall be raised 
with a view to a permanent memorial of Canon Jackson, and that 
it shall take the form of an extension or addition to the Society’s 
Museum and Library.” 
The Rev. E. H. Gopparp, in seconding the motion, explained 
that a resolution to this effect was come to at a Committee meeting 
shortly after Canon Jackson’s death, but that subsequently it was 
suggested that the publication of the History of the Hungerford 
Family, the compilation of which had occupied so many years of the 
late Canon’s life, would ke likely to be more acceptable to antiquaries 
generally, outside as well as inside the county. The late Canon’s 
nephew, however, into whose possession the MSS. had passed, did 
not favour the suggestion, which, therefore, fell to the ground, and 
no other suggestion which had been made seemed so desirable as the 
one now proposed. 
This resolution having been unanimously adopted, and a sub- 
scription list opened, the proceedings terminated, and the party— 
which had by this time grown to larger dimensions—set forth to 
view the objects of interest in the town, as well as the rain would 
let them. 
