THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE, 



' ' MTJLTOETJM MANIBUS GEANDE LEYATUE ONUS." — Ovid. 



THE SIXTH GENERAL MEETING 



OF THE 



SKtltsljtre arcft^ological an* Natural Sfetorg Society 



HELD AT MARLBOROUGH, 

 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 27th, 28th, and 29th September, 



1859. 



PEESIDENT OP THE MEETING, 

 G. PoULETT ScROPE, ESQ., M.P. 



|^^||HE Town- Hall of Marlborough having been kindly placed 

 j^jSHf a t the service of the Society, the proceedings of the Sixth 

 Anniversary Meeting commenced at 12 o'clock on Tuesday, Sept. 

 27th, under the Presidency of G. Poulett Scrope, Esq., M.P. — On 

 taking the chair, 



Mr. SCROPE said it was with great reluctance he had under- 

 taken the duties of the office in which they had been kind enough 

 to place him, because he felt that the chair would be far better 

 occupied by others whom he saw present, and who were locally 

 connected with the town and neighbourhood of Marlborough. In- 

 deed, but for unavoidable absence, the Marquis of Ailesbury, 

 who by his personal character, no less than by his rank, held such 

 a high position in that neighbourhood, would, no doubt, have 

 presided over the meeting on this occasion. They were now 

 entering upon the seventh year of the existence of this Society, 

 and he thought he might congratulate the members upon the suc- 

 cessful progress which it had made during that period. It was a 

 progress neither too rapid, nor too explosive in its character; other- 

 wise, they might not expect it to endure; but it had been gradual, 

 and, as such, might lead them to hope that it would be permanent, 



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