THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE 



"MULTOEUM MANIBXTS GEANDE LEVATUK ONUS." — Ovid. 



THE EIGHTH GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



SEiltstjirc ^rcljeeolosical ant Natural f^istorg Society, 



HELD AT SHAFTESBURY, 



Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, 2\st, 22nd, and 2^rd August, 



1861. 



PEESIDENT OF THE MBETIHG, 



The Rt. Hon. T. H. S. Sotheron Estcourt, M.P., D.C.L. 



iWING to the convenient vicinity of the Town to that part 

 y/k of the County of Wilts which the Archaeological Society 

 proposed to visit this year, its Annual Meeting was held at 

 Shaftesbury in Dorsetshire. The 7th August had been originally 

 fixed, but in consequence of the death of Lord Herbert of Lea, a 

 postponement became necessary. Though this alteration disturbed 

 in some degree arrangements which had been made, the attendance 

 was nevertheless good, and the Meeting a successful one. 



The Rt. Hon. Mr. Sotheron Estcourt, having taken the chair in 

 the Market House at one o'clock, said that his first duty as President 

 on that occasion was to give to every one a hearty welcome, and to 

 express his regret that they had been compelled to postpone the 

 meeting for a fortnight in consequence of the lamented death of 

 Lord Herbert. This postponement was to be regretted, in conse- 

 quence of many houses in the town and neighbourhood having been 

 fiUed with visitors who would have attended the meeting. He was 



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