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The Thirty-third General Meeting. 



The President then gave an address on " Barbury Castle/' into 

 which we will not enter here, as it will be found in extenso in another 

 part of this number of the Magazine. At its conclusion, and on 

 the subsidence of the hearty applause with which it was received, 

 the Rev. Canon Jackson proposed a vote of thanks to the President 

 for his able and interesting 1 address ; and in doing so said what the 

 Society wanted among its Members was more men of the stamp 

 of the President, who. having taken a thorough and practical 

 interest in the locality in which he resided, had thus been able to so 

 accurately present to them the distinguishing features of the place 

 he had so well spoken of. They were exceedingly obliged to their 

 President for the information he had given them. The Rev. "W. C. 

 Plenderleath seconded the motion, and the vote having been ac- 

 corded with acclamation, the President expressed his acknowledg- 

 ments for the kindness which had been shown him, and said if he 

 had succeeded in fishing up anything which could throw any light 

 on what had taken place in past history he was more than satisfied* 

 He wished, however, to thank in particular his friend Mr. H. Kemble, 

 of Overtown — to whom his hearers owed more than to himself — for 

 his kindness in helping him in all sorts of ways and in providing 

 him with a fine ordnance map, on which the actual sites of the places 

 he had mentioned more particularly in his paper on " Barbury 

 Castle " were plainly marked. 



This concluded the proceedings of the morning Meeting, on 

 which the company adjourned to the Quarries, where Professor 

 J ones pointed out the different strata and the characteristic features 

 of various fossils; and others to the Church and other interesting 

 spots in Old Swindon. 



The Anniversary Dinner took place at the Goddard Arms Hotel, 

 at 6, p.m., the President of the Society in the chair, when the usual 

 loyal, patriotic, and other toasts were duly given and responded to. 



A Conversazione was held at the Town Hall, at 8, p.m., at which 

 the President occupied the chair, when, in the absence of the Vicar 

 of Swindon (the Rev. H. Armstrong Hall), who had prepared a 

 paper on "Our Oak Chest," the Rev. J. S. Puckridge, Curate of 

 Swindon, read the paper, which detailed various old records of parish 



