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illuminated characters, and with mottoes inculcating piety, patriot- 
ism, and good fellowship. The chair was occupied by the Marquis of 
Bath, and the company numbered about 230, including a large 
proportion of ladies. 
An evening meeting was held at the Town Hall, under the 
presidency of Archdeacon Macdonald. The papers read were 
“On the Fossil Mammalia of Wiltshire,” by Mr. Wir11am 
Cunnincton; and a lecture by Mr. Lamsert, of Salisbury, on 
“ Ancient Music,” with vocal illustrations by the lecturer to a 
piano-forte accompaniment. 
SECOND DAY—WEDNESDAY. 
In the morning an Excursion party, under the direction of the 
Rey. J. Baron, Rector of Upton Scudamore, visited the camps of 
Battlebury and Scratchbury, two of the most celebrated ancient 
military positions in Wiltshire, and immediately commanding the 
town of Warminster. 
In the afternoon the Society was received at Longleat, by the 
noble President of the meeting. About 600 persons were present, 
including his lordship and several members of his family, the 
principal gentry and clergy of the neighbourhood, both in Wilts 
and Somerset. The company were welcomed by the noble Marquis 
at the entrance to the gardens, with a courteous attention which 
was unremittingly continued throughout the day, and added largely 
to the gratification of his numerous visitors. The weather was of 
the finest. The house was liberally thrown open to inspection ; and 
about half-past three o’clock the summons was given to an enter- 
tainment in the Great Hall. This, it will be scarcely necessary to 
say, was provided upon a scale of the most generous and princely 
hospitality, involving, it is to be feared, a much greater amount of 
trouble and cost in the needful arrangements than the Society would 
at all desire to impose upon those noblemen and gentlemen who are 
disposed to honour them with encouragement. In this particular 
kind of reception, it has had to acknowledge upon former occasions, 
at Bowood, Wilton house, the Episcopal Palace at Salisbury, and 
elsewhere, similar marks of attention. It will be very long before 
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