520 The Fifty -Ninth General Meeting, 



BOYD DAWKINS, F.R.S., F.S.A., who was present, to say a few 

 words. Ill a charming impromptu speech he enlarged on the 

 position which Wiltshire holds in the archaeological world, and on 

 the position which the Museum at Devizes holds amongst the 

 provincial museums of England. No museum in England, he 

 declared, was more important archaeologically, and in the future 

 it would take a more and more important place in the scheme of 

 education when people had learnt to study actual objects to elucidate 

 the past history of the country, rather than to read about them in 

 books. Museums would have an increasing influence on education. 

 He also paid a warm tribute to the hereditary archaeological at- 

 tainments of the Cunnington family, now manifesting themselves 

 in the third generation in the person of THE MAYOR and MRS. 

 CUNNINGTON, whose work on'the camps was extremely important. 

 He suggested that a fruitful subject of future study might be the 

 relation of the various trackways with reference both to the camps 

 and the distribution of the barrows. 



Having thanked Professor Boyd Dawkins, the President called 

 on MR. B. H. CUNNINGTON to give some account of the discovery 

 recently of a skeleton accompanied by the remains of a " drinking 

 cup " close to the base of the great " Longstone " at Beckhampton, 

 which fell in December, 1911, and was then being re-erected. A 

 full account of this discovery, the most important probably yet 

 made in connection with the age of Avebury, will appear in the 

 Magazine. THE REV. E. H. GODDARD took the opportunity of 

 reminding Members that the amount of money subscribed so far 

 towards the re-erection of the stone would probably prove in- 

 sufficient, especially in view of the fact that the Society had now 

 resolved to re-erect also one of the stones in the Kennet Avenue, 

 He therefore appealed for further subscriptions, however small in 

 amount. 



THURSDAY, JULY 11th. 



The Excursion arranged for the second day of the Meeting lay 

 almost wholly on the downs, and the camps to be visited included 

 two of the highest points in the neighbourhood. It was necessary. 



