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The Sixth General Meeting. 



The health of Lord Ernest Bruce was then given, and acknow- 

 ledged by his Lordship. 



In thanking both the General "Secretaries" of the Society, as 

 well as Mr. T. B. Merriman and Mr. R. E. Price who had under- 

 taken the Honorary office for the temporary arrangements at 

 Marlborough, Mr. Carrington alluded more particularly to the 

 work which belongs to the office as connected with the publication 

 of the Society's Magazine. "With regard to the papers that ap- 

 peared in it, they took days and weeks and months to compile. It 

 sounded very pleasant to ears polite to hear papers read, but he 

 must remind them that it was only by great diligence that those 

 papers were got into a complete form ; and to the Secretaries, they 

 were very much indebted, not only for those papers, but for the 

 many other services which they unostentatiously performed. The 

 papers published by other provincial Societies were in no way to 

 be compared with those of this Society. That upon Avebury, read 

 this morning, had given him the greatest satisfaction." 



The Rev. Canon Jackson desired that among those whom the 

 toast included, as having given much time and trouble to the com- 

 position of Articles for the Magazine, might more particularly be 

 named, the Rev. W. H. Jones, vicar of Bradford-on-Avon, and the 

 Rev. J. Wilkinson, rector of Broughton Grifford; who, during the 

 past year had each completed careful and excellent Histories of 

 their respective parishes. 



After the healths of " The Mayor and Corporation of Marlbo- 

 rough," to which the Mayor, Mr. Gwillim, replied, following up 

 his speech with a proposal of hearty thanks to " Mr. Carrington," 

 for having added so much to the hilarity of the day : and then 

 " The Ladies ;" on which the Rev. W. C. Ltjkis specially men- 

 tioned the kindness of Mrs. John Britton (the Antiquary's widow, 

 then present), in making many donations to the museum; the 

 company separated. 



THE CONVERSAZIONE. 



In the evening, the Rev. Canon Jackson resumed his paper, 

 which now bore particular reference to the origin and date of 

 Stonehenge. On this perplexing question, he felt, upon the whole, 



