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supposed strictly speaking he should call it an address. General 

 Pitt-Rivers had travelled, aud he thought usefully travelled, from, 

 the usual course of proceeding on an occasion of that kind. Other 

 Presidents of Meetings of that kind had only addressed them in a 

 very cursory manner, travelling over a lot of ground and stopping 

 at no particular point. General Pitt-Rivers had, however, taken 

 one point and given them an excellent address upon it. He sup- 

 posed General Pitt-Rivers would allow them to pass a very hearty 

 vote of thanks to him without endorsing all the conclusions he had 

 arrived at — because he for one was inclined to dispute some of them. 



The motion was carried with applause, and the Meeting terminated. 



The afternoon was devoted to an inspection of the Cathedral, 

 the Bishop's Palace, and St. Nicholas' Hospital : and in the evening 

 a Conversazione was held in the Council House, under the presidency 

 of General Pitt- Rivers, when the Bishop op Salisbury opened the 

 Antiquarian Section by reading a paper on the " Seals of the Bishops 

 of Salisbury/' This was followed by a paper, read by Mr. J. H. 

 Moule, of Dorchester, entitled " A Description of the Vetus Regis- 

 trum Sarisberiense/' with a short notice of some of the other MSS. 

 at Salisbury. For both of these interesting papers the hearty 

 thanks of the Meeting were offered from the chair. 



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3rd. Stonehenge Excursion. 



A large party left Salisbury at 10, a.m., and first drove to Old 

 Sarum, where they were gratified by a paper on that ancient fortress 

 by the President of the Meeting, General Pitt- Rivers. After a 

 careful examination of this fine old camp and site of the former 

 city, the archaaologists next drove to Great Durnford Church, the 

 details of which were pointed out by Mr. G. H. Gordon; and then 

 to Amesbury Church, which was described by Precentor Venables, 

 and where it was annouuced that the fine old screen which once 

 decorated the chancel was offered by Mr. Edwards (who had care- 

 fully preserved it), for replacement in its original position; an offer 

 which we trust will be gratefully accepted. After luncheon, the 

 party proceeded by Vespasian's Camp to Stonehenge, where General 

 Pitt-Rivers first called attention to the great difference of opinion 



