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The Twentieth General Meeting. 



Then the carriage department was visited, where a carriage in course 

 of construction for the special use of Her Majesty the Queen attracted 

 considerable attention, and other royal carriages were examined. 

 The time however, devoted to an examination of these interesting 

 works, had too soon expired ; so with a cordial expression of thanks 

 to Mr. Armstrong, for his kindness in throwing the works open, 

 and not less hearty thanks to Mr. Carlton, for his courtesy and 

 lucid explanations in conducting the party over the premises, our 

 Archaeologists hastened back to Old Swindon, to take part in the 

 more legitimate work of the Society. 1 ] 



The Members of the Society assembled in the Town- Hall of 

 Swindon, at two o'clock, on Tuesday, September 16th, under the 

 presidency of A. L. Goddard, Esq., who occupied the chair, in the 

 unavoidable absence abroad of the President of the Society, (Mr. 

 Goldney,) and opened the proceedings by calling upon one of the 

 General Secretaries, the Rev. A. C. Smith, to read 



THE REPORT FOR 1873. 

 "The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society has the satisfaction of once more congratulating the 

 Members on the continued prosperity of the Society, which certainly 

 during the last year has suffered no diminution ; the number of 

 names now on the books amounting to 329, which figure proclaims 

 an increase of eight during the last twelvemonth ; and that though 

 we have to deplore the loss of several of our oldest friends, amongst 

 whom we would especially mention Mr. Fuller, of Neston Park, 

 General Buckley, and the Rev. William T. Wyld : but above all, the 

 late Mayor of Devizes, Mr. Wittey, who, from a very early period 

 of the Society's existence, has been an active member of the Com- 

 mittee, and more especially last year devoted his energies to the 

 establishment of the Museum and Library, and indeed by whose 

 activity the purchase of the buildings was, in great measure, brought 

 about. 



"In a financial point of view, the Society is in a prosperous 



1 In compiling the following general account of the Swindon Meeting, the 

 Editors desire to acknowledge their obligations to the columns of the " North 

 Wilts Herald" and the " Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard." 



