THE 



WILTSHIRE M4GAZINE. 



"MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS." — Ovid. 



THE TWENTY-EIGHTH GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



Wiltshire Archaeological & Statural ©fetorg Soctetg, 



HELD AT MALMESBURY, 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August '2nd, 3rd, and Mh, 



1882. 



PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 



The Right Hon. Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, M.P. 



^ HE proceedings of the Twenty-eighth General Meeting 1 of 

 the Society, were opened at the Town Hall, Malmesbury, by 

 the President of the Society, Lord Edmond Fitzmaurice, taking the 

 chair, and expressing on behalf of several gentlemen who had 

 written to him their regret, at their inability to be present : one of 

 these gentlemen was Sir John Lubbock, to whom, he need hardly 

 remind them, they owed a deep debt of gratitude, for the steps he 

 took some years ago, in regard to those great monuments, Abury 

 and Silbury Hill, of which he was in great measure now the pro- 

 prietor, thereby practically rescuing the former of those monu- 

 ments from the danger with which it was threatened : but, Sir John 

 was also a man of world-wide antiquarian and scientific reputation. 

 Other gentlemen who desired him to apologize for their absence on 

 the ground of their being detained in London by their parliamen- 

 tary duties, were Mr. Story Maskelyne, Mr. Long, and Mr. Estcourt. 



1 In preparing the following account of the Malmesbury Meeting the Editor 

 desires to acknowledge his obligations to the Editors of the Devizes and Wilt- 

 shire Gazette, the Wilts and Gloucester Standard, and the Wiltshire Times 

 and Trowbridge Advertiser. 



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