262 Fourth General Meeting. 
9. From Manuscripts in the British Museum and other Public 
Libraries, College Libraries, The Collections alluded 
to in the Stourhead Catalogue, Copies of Curious 
Deeds or Charters in private hands, Charters of 
Forests, &c. 
10. ,, Biographies of Eminent Wiltshire Men, Local Mono- 
graphs, or descriptions of particular objects, houses, 
churches, and the like, which may have appeared in 
other publications. 
The general object of the Society is, in short, to bring together, 
and to one point if possible, whatever bears upon, or is likely to 
illustrate Wiltshire History. 
The Committee have not been altogether unmindful of the other 
interesting and important branch of the Society’s pursuits, viz. : 
Natural History. A series of papers on Ornithology have been 
published in the Magazine, and we are to be favoured with another 
on the “Flora” of the county, scientifically arranged, by a gentleman 
who has been for some years engaged in preparing them. And the 
subject of Wiltshire Geology will, we hope, receive some elucidation 
at our present meeting. 
Another subject which has occupied the attention of your Com- 
mittee has been the propriety of taking some steps for the more 
permanent establishment of a County Museum, but they are not at 
this moment prepared to lay any distinct project before you.” 
The Report was ordered to be printed. 
The CHarrman then moved that the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert 
be requested to accept the office of President of the Society for the 
next three years, in the place of Mr. Poulett Scrope, which was 
unanimously agreed to. 
The Rey. J. O. Picron, curate of Rowde, then delivered an 
address on “Archeology,” which will be found in a subsequent 
page. 
The Dinner took place in the large National School-room in 
West-street, which under the superintendence of the Rey. A. Fane, 
had been decorated with an endless variety of illustrations bearing 
upon Archzology, interspersed with appropriate scriptural texts in 
