THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"MTJLTOETJM MANIBU3 GEANDE LEVATUE ONUS." — Ovtd. 



THE FIFTH GENERAL MEETING 



OP THE 



5IEilts!)ire ^rdjaeolosical anU Natural fHistorg Societg, 



HELD AT BEADFORD, 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, llth, 12th, andl^th of August, 



1857. 



PEESIDENT OF THB MBEXINO, 



The Rev. J. H. Bradney, M.A. 



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allE Proceedings of the Fifth Anniversary Meeting of the 



.■^uj^ Society opened at 12 o'clock on Tuesday, August 11th, in 

 the New Town-Hall, Bradford, with the following Addeess, by the 

 President elected for the occasion, the Rev. J. H. Bradney. 



" In the absence of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, M.P., which 

 they all lamented, he had the honour of appearing as the temporary 

 chairman of the Wiltshire Archaeological Society. He had been 

 unwilling to undertake the responsibility, but had yielded to the 

 solicitations of his friends, and now desired to claim the indulgence 

 of the meeting on the score of his small experience in Archaeology. 

 When the first intimation was made to them of the honour in- 

 tended the town of Bradford by the visit of the Society, they all set 

 to work in right earnest to prepare for it a worthy reception. A 

 large coraraittco was formed, consisting of a number of the chief 

 inhabitants of the town and neighbourliood. Two gentlemen (Dr. 

 Ilighmore and tlie Rev. J. Wilkinson,) were appointed as local 

 secretaries, from whom they had received the most valuable assist- 



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