22 General Account of Inaugural Meeting. 
collection of flint fossils. These had been obtained from land be- 
longing to himself, by an ingenious geologist, who had asked leave 
to go over it for the purpose of searching for such remains, and 
who had found a perfect treasure of fossils—so extensive and yalu- 
able that he (Mr. Fane) had been almost inclined to charge him a 
per centage upon what he might afterwards find. (Laughter.) 
He did trust that there would be the greatest care taken to avoid 
all jealousy between the North and South of the county. He 
trusted they would give them an opportunity of meeting m the 
South. He had been told in a whisper that the next meeting 
might be held at Salisbury. He hoped it might be so. Their 
object should be to unite the two parts of the county divided by 
Salisbury Plain. Everywhere in the county, South as well as 
North, there were valuable remains. Fossils were to be found 
under their feet, and ladies might find rings under hearthstones. 
(Laughter.) He concluded by proposing that the followimg gen- 
tlemen should be the Vice-Presidents,—viz., The Lord Bishop of 
Salisbury, Sir J.W. Awdry, John Britton, Esq., H. M. Clarke, Esq., 
Capt. J. N. Gladstone, M.P., G. H. W. Heneage, Esq., M.P., The 
Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., Walter Long, Esq., M.P., 
Joseph Neeld, Esq., M.P., R. P. Nisbet, Esq., Lieut-Col. H. 8. 
Olivier, W. W. Salmon, Esq., T. H. 8. Sotheron, Esq., M.P., and 
Earl Bruce. ; 
~ Rey. Jas. Briss of Ogbourne, seconded the resolution. With 
reference to the observations of Mr. Fane, he said the Committee 
had been most anxious that no difference should exist between the 
North and South of the county. Mr. Fane was the only person 
from the South who had condescended to accept the office of Local 
Secretary. Invitations had been extensively sent out, but declined, 
he hoped, not through jealousy on the part of the Southern division 
of the county. (“No, no.”) The Committee were not to blame; 
it was the fault of the gentlemen who had been communicated with, 
but had refused to jom with them. He trusted, however, that | 
they would yet have, in a very few weeks, a large accession from 
that part of the county, that was yet comparatively unrepresented. 
Mr. Cunnryctoy—The circulars were sent rather more generally 
into the South than into the North. I felt, from the beginning, 
that it was most important such a course should be adopted. Mr. 
Bliss made a mistake in saying there was only one local Secretary 
in the South. Besides Mr. Fane, there are two secretaries at 
Salisbury, and one at Bishopstone; and there are eight or ten 
members from that division of the county. 
Tue PrestpeNt—I am sure Mr. Fane will allow that in his good- 
humoured observations, there was something rather taunting to 
the gentlemen who got up the Society; and he must not be sur- 
prised at the degree of warmth displayed by Mr. Bliss, in repelling 
those taunts. It appears, however, that they consulted the South 
