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The Twenty -first General Meeting. 



Calne, subsequently a canon of Salisbury, and finally Archbishop of 

 Canterbury. 



Other toasts followed, according to custom. In reply to the health 

 of the Mayor (Mr. Reynolds) , who had warmly welcomed the Society 

 to Devizes, and done everything* in his power to facilitate the work 

 of the Museum, that gentleman said, that although he did not 

 pretend to a knowledge of archaeology, there were many matters 

 connected with the past in which he took an interest. He had 

 noticed, and perhaps many present might have done so, the great 

 desire which any one who had had the misfortune to lose a dear 

 friend exhibited to preserve some memorial of him, and to remember 

 what he was like ; and the same feeling animated them with regard 

 to their remote ancestors — they all desired to know how they lived, 

 how they loved, how they fought, &c, all of which would, but for 

 such societies as this, be a dead book. In this respect they were 

 constantly meeting, as it were, with an oyster, with no knife well 

 tempered enough to open it, and if the archaeologists had done no 

 other good, the busy, money-making people were under a great 

 debt of gratitude to them for what they had done in this 

 respect. 



The officers of the Society, President, Secretaries, Secretary to 

 the meeting, were all duly honoured ; as were also the ladies, whose 

 kind assistance at our archaeological meetings adds in no small 

 degree to their pleasure, and the company adjourned to the Town 

 Hall for 



THE CONVERSAZIONE. 

 The President took the chair at 7.30, p.m., when the following 

 papers were read in succession : " The History of the Parish of 

 Potterne/'' by the Rev. Prebendary Jones, F.S.A.; " On the Porch 

 House of Potterne," by the Rev. A. C. Smith ; « On Wolfhall and 

 the Seymours," by the Rev. Canon Jackson, P.S.A. It will be 

 unnecessary to make any extracts or to comment on these papers, 

 as they will all appear in due course in the pages of the Magazine. 

 Tea and coffee and other refreshments were liberally provided by 

 the Mayor and Corporation, who left nothing undone which could 

 conduce to the comfort or convenience of the archaeologists. 



