THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



" MULTOEUM MANIBTTS GKANDE LEVATUR ONUS." — Ovid. 



THE TWENTY-FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING 



OF THE 



fflWtsJjtrc arc^olocftcal & Natural Htstorg Soriettj, 



HELD AT MARLBOROUGH, 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August \Wi, \Wi, and 14stk, 



1879. 



PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 



The Most Honourable The Marquis of Ailesbury. 



|N Tuesday, August 12th, the Society assembled for its twenty- 

 fifth Annual Meeting/ at the Town Hall, Marlborough, an 

 interval of no less than twenty years having elapsed since its last 

 visit to that town. 



The chair was taken at half-past two o'clock by the President of 

 the Meeting, The Most Honourable The Marquis of Ailesbury, who 

 opened the proceedings by welcoming the Society to Marlborough, 

 and expressing the pleasure he experienced in performing the duty 

 allotted to him, though he wished it had fallen to the lot of some one 

 better acquainted than he was with the subjects which came under 

 the cognizance of their association. He did not pretend to have 

 any knowledge whatever of archaeology ; and he only accepted the 

 office of President of the Meeting in furtherance of the duty which 

 he owed to his neighbours and friends. He congratulated them 

 upon the joyful day on which they had met. The weather appeared 

 to be the subject of constant discussion on every occasion, and 



1 In preparing this account of the Marlborough Meeting the Editor desires to 

 acknowledge the assistance he has derived from the columns of the Marlborough 

 Times, and the Devizes Gazette. 



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