Friday, July Vlth, 52X> 



SIMPKINS, a very welcome tea was laid out. It was a question 

 whether, considering the lateness of the evenin(,^ BISHOPS 

 CANNINGS CHURCH, which was tlie last item on the projrramme, 

 should he visited or not, hut in the end the greater part of the 

 Memhers found themselves there, and the many interesting points 

 of the fine Church were shortly indicated hy THE REV. E. H. 

 GODDARD. After this the hrakes made for Devizes, aniviii(,M'ust 

 three-quarters-of-an-hour late, after a day which had Ix^en, unlike 

 the majority of the Society's excursions, devoted almost wholly 

 to earthworks — as was only fitting when MPv. AND MRS. 

 CUNNINGTON were in a measure the hosts of the Meeting. 



In the evening, instead of the ordinary Conversazione with 

 papers, the Memhers assemhled at THE MUSEUM, specially lighted 

 up tor the occasion, and sought out the special collections which 

 interested then) most, heing eidightened as to the anti(iuities hy 

 MR. AND MRS. CUNNINGTON, as to the PaUeolithic Hint imple- 

 ments hy THE REV. H. G. O. KENDALL, and as to the hirds hy 

 THE REV. D. P. HARRISON. The new arrangement hy the former 

 of the Stourhead Collection according to se[)arate interments was 

 much appreciated, and prohahly for a good many of the Memhers 

 who were present the evening was to some extent a revelation of 

 the great value of the collections possessed hy the Society. 



EIMDAY, JULY 12Tir. 

 For thisExcursion two motor husses wereemployed,accompanied, 

 as on the previous day, hy some dozen private motors The second 

 day's Excursion is generally attended hy considerahly fewer ATem- 



hers UijMi the (iist, hut on this occasion the iiumh(M' on lioth days 

 was praclically the sanH^ sixty heing pi-esent at hiiich lime at 

 Kdin^lon. Tli(> day ])1-o\'(m1 one of the hottest of the season so far, 

 hut happily the t hunt ierslonns which iuokti ()\'(m- oI her jtarts of 

 Mh' cniinti-y wei'c (Mitirrjy aliseiit fmiu Ccntial Wilts, thdC^h the 

 dust, on the roads \vas somewhat- tryiii'j; for the ni(»t<»ri.sts. 



I.(\'i\-iii'4 th(> r.ear Hotfd at DiU) and arriving a t ntCllFON'r 

 cm hCll at III IT) iho Monihcrs took' their seat s and t he \'icar. 

 TIM', i;t:\-. J. 1I.\MI,\\ Mill, hi)., dcsorihed thi^ (diief t\'ature3 



