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amount in aid of excavations, and that therefore the appeal must 

 be made to individual Members for help. After a song by the 

 REV.W. ASHBURNER there was an interval for refreshments, which 

 were most kindly provided by MRS. JOHN HARRIS, and during 

 this interval the Members took the opportunity of visiting the 

 ■collection of objects of interest lent for the occasion by the inhabi- 

 tants of Calne. These included some china and English pottery 

 and a number of arms and other objects from India and Tibet. 

 Another song was then sung by MR. ASHBURNER, and then 

 MR. H. E. MEDLICOTT, who had taken the chair when DR. BEDDOE 

 was obliged to vacate it, called on the REV. E. J. BODINGTON 

 to read a paper on THE INDUSTRIES OF CALNE. This contained 

 a number of interesting facts connected with the history of the 

 place, which it is to be hoped will some day appear in print. 



WEDNESDAY, JULY 6th. 



Leaving the Lansdowne Arms Hotel at 9.30 two large Motor 

 Busses— these vehicles having for the first time last year been 

 pressed into the service of the Society — and a number of private 

 motors took the members to Bowood by the beautiful drive enter- 

 ing the park at the Highlands Gate. On arrival MR. BROWN, the 

 head gardener, conducted the party, eighty in number, through 

 the gardens, the hothouses, and the singularly beautiful Pinetum, 

 with its splendid specimen conifers and lovely views of the Lake. 

 The Heronry on the Island in the Lake attracted the ornithologists 

 of the party, several nests being visible, and a number of Herons 

 being obliging enough to put in an appearance. MR. H. HERBERT 

 SMITH, who was to have conducted the party, was un- 

 fortunately absent from illness, but his son, MR. C. HERBERT 

 SMITH, was present and conducted the members through the 

 house. Here the fine collection of pictures were seen at leisure, 

 the members being allowed to wander through the rooms at will, 

 and Rembrandt's " Mill," the Raphael Predella, and the many 

 other notable paintings which the house contains were duly 

 admired. Luncheon in the Orangery, by kind permission of the 



