Conversazione at the Town Hall. 



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the Society, and therefore its real representative, to speak on its 

 behalf. 



The Rev. A. C. Smith, in responding, said they went to different 

 parts of the county year aftei year, and gave a great deal of trouble 

 to their friends at the various places they visited. There was no 

 more interesting district in the whole of Wiltshire than the neigh- 

 bourhood of Calne. They were not only within the district of 

 Avebury, which had the largest heathen temple in the world, but 

 they had also running through a portion of the county Wans Dyke, 

 which was an extraordinary feature in the locality, and which had 

 certainly not been examined as he hoped it would be some day. 

 Then at Silbury they had the largest artificial mound in Europe, 

 and throughout the whole district there were numerous objects of 

 interest to the archaeologist. Before sitting down he proposed " The 

 health of the Local Secretaries." 



The Rev. W. C. Plenderleath, in responding, referred to the 

 pleasure it gave him to perform the duties, and expressed his great 

 indebtedness to the assistance he had received from his colleague, 

 Mr. Wilkins. 



Mr. Wilkins also returned thanks, and said that he and his col- 

 league had both tried to do their very best, and they were amply 

 repaid by the success which had already attended the proceedings, 

 and which they hoped would still continue. 



The President said they would be pleased to hear that sixteen 

 new Members had joined this year. 



This concluded this part of the proceedings, and the company at 

 once adjourned to the Town Hall, where a 



CONVERSAZIONE 



was held, the President again occupying the chair. 



The Rev. Canon Jackson delighted a large audience with one 

 of his admirable papers on " Calne/'' giving as full an account as 

 could be gathered about the history of the town and neighbourhood : 

 and interspersing the more solid historical details with many amusing 

 episodes, after the inimitable manner of that veteran archaeologist. 



