The Sixth General Meeting. 



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mittee would express a hope that such of the friends of the Society 

 as have it in their power, will aid in making this portion of their 

 museum more complete. 



"The Magazine, under the management of Canon Jackson, (for 

 whose labours as editor your Committee cannot sufficiently express 

 their thanks), has now entered upon its sixth volume with, it is 

 hoped, no lack of interesting material and undiminished ability. 

 It will be seen that in prosecuting researches into the past history 

 of the county, the Society has not forgotten the other object it has 

 in view, but from time to time varies its treatises on antiquities 

 with geological, botanical, and ornithological notices. 



"It only remains for your Committee once more to impress upon 

 your attention the necessity for your zealous co-operation: not 

 only in enlisting new members as recruits to our ranks, (though 

 that is of considerable service, and much strengthens our hands), 

 but in making known anything of interest that may come under 

 your notice in your several localities, illustrative of the Archaeology 

 or the Natural History of Wiltshire." 



Thanks were given to the Committee for the Report, and for the 

 pains and trouble which they had taken in presiding over the 

 financial arrangements of the Society; and the same*officers (with 

 the exception of the President) having been re-appointed; 



Mr. Scrope said it had been proposed that in the place of Mr. 

 Sidney Herbert, whose term of office had just expired, Mr. Sotheron 

 Estcourt should be requested to take the Presidency|of the Society 

 for the next three years. [This proposal met with unanimous as- 

 sent.] 



The Rev. Canon Jackson then read the Paper of which he had 

 given notice: "On the Grey wethers, and their uses at Avebury 

 and Stonehenge." 



THE DINNER. 

 At half-past three o'clock the members and their friends, includ- 

 ing a great number of ladies, and amounting altogether to about 

 100, dined in the large school-room lately built in St. Peter's 

 parish. An excellent repast was provided by Mr. Hammond of 

 the Castle and Ball Inn, with liberal addition of venison and fruit 



