THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"multobum manibus geande levatub onus." — Ovid. 



THE THIRTY-THIRD GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



Wiltfftixz arcljaeolostcal anti Natural fgistors Soctctg, 



HELD AT SWINDON, 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, August \§th, Wth, and I2tk, 



1886. 



PEESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 



Nevil Story Maskelyne, Esq., M.P. 



HE SOCIETY for the third time selected Swindon as the 

 centre of its Annual Meeting in 1886, having previously 

 visited that town in I860 and 1873 : and on Tuesday, August 10th, 

 the Members and their friends assembled in the Town Hall, at 

 2.30, p.m., with the President of the Society in the chair; sundry 

 Members of the Society having previously visited the celebrated 

 Locomotive and Carriage Works of the Great Western Railway 

 Company, over which they had been conducted, by the kind per- 

 mission of the Manager, Major Dean. 



The President opened the proceedings by calling on the Rev; 

 A. C. Smith (one of the Honorary Secretaries), to read the 



REPORT FOR 1886. 



"The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society has but a short report to offer to its Members of 

 the condition of the Society during a somewhat uneventful year, 

 which year, however, though not marked by any great efforts on 

 the part of the Society, will be found to show a fair amount of work 

 done in the several departments. First, however, must be mentioned, 



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