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The Fiftieth General Meeting. 



case in the days before the enclosure, when a dozen wagonnettes 

 and brakes drawn up close to the stones, and large parties of 

 trippers playing hide-and-seek amongst them, to say nothing of 

 paper and ginger beer bottles, formed the " wild and impressive 

 surroundings." 



After adjourning to the neighbouring barn for an extremely 

 welcome cup of tea, the party rejoined their carriages, and whilst 

 one of the brakes made for Salisbury, the others journeyed back 

 to Devizes, and so the "Jubilee Meeting" of 1903 came to an 

 end. Throughout the proceedings the weather had been on the 

 whole excellent, neither too hot nor too cold, and everyone agreed 

 that the meeting was one of the most successful, as it was also the 

 most numerously-attended that the Society has held for many 

 years. For very much of this success we have to thank the 

 untiring attention and care of Mr. B. H. Cunnington, who acted 

 as Local Secretary, and upon whose shoulders the whole burden of 

 the arrangements fell. We have also to thank the Mayor and 

 Corporation of Devizes for the welcome they gave to the Society. 



Among the objects exhibited at the Conversaziones were the 

 corporation maces, loving cup, and the Brittox Club punch bowl ; 

 a series of flint implements from Knowle, exhibited by Mr. B. H. 

 Cunnington aud Mr. S. B. Dixon ; a couple of sickles, one from 

 Ireland and the other from Brittany, showing the survival of the 

 teeth on one side of the blade, exhibited by the Eev. C. V. Goddard ; 

 and a good copy of the curious Wootton Bassett election print 

 entitled : — 



" A Representation of the Procession at Wootton Bassett, in which nearly 

 the whole of the Electors attended their Member Mr. Walsh on his return 

 home," 



on Wednesday, February 3rd, 1808, exhibited together with the 

 objects mentioned in his paper by Mr. A. D. Passmore. 



It is to be hoped that the success of the Meeting will bear fruit 

 in cordial support from the Members of the Society, as well as 

 the outside public, of the scheme for the enlargement of the 

 Museum at Devizes, the urgent need for which Members could see 

 for themselves in the congested state to which the very valuable 

 collections of the Society are reduced in the present buildings. 



