The Eleventh General Meeting. 



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useful in their way, but persons must see objects themselves, in 

 order to understand them properly. 



The noble Chairman then gave the health of the General 

 Secretaries, the Rev. A. C. Smith, and Mr. Cunnington, who 

 severally returned thanks. 



The health of the Local Secretaries was next proposed, and 

 received with enthusiasm ; Mr. Swayne, Mr. Nightingale, and 

 Mr. Stevens, in turn responded ; and the latter, to whose exertions 

 the success of the present meeting was universally acknowledged 

 to be due, referred with satisfaction to the readiness with which 

 everybody seconded his efforts, and to the hospitality offered on all 

 sides to the members of the Society. 



The health of the Local Committee followed, and the Curators 

 of the Museum, coupled with the name of Mr. Charles Wyndham, 

 who returned thanks. 



CONVERSAZIONE AT THE PALACE. 



By the kind invitation of the Bishop, the members of the 

 Society and their friends, to the number of about 200, assembled 

 I at the Palace, where they were most hospitably received by his 

 Lordship, and Mrs. Hamilton. The chair was taken by the noble 

 President, Earl Nelson, who introduced the various lecturers ; and 

 the pleasures of the evening were very much enhanced b}' the 

 addition of some charming glees, which were admirably sung by 

 amateurs, ladies and gentlemen, who had very kindly volunteered 

 their services for the occasion. • 



The Rev. A. C. Smith read a paper on " the method of moving 

 Colossal Stones, as practised by some of the more advanced nations 

 of antiquity," wherein he referred more especially to the practice 

 pursued by the Assyrians and Egyptians as proved by the bas- 

 reliefs found by Mr. Layard and Sir Gardner Wilkinson ; he also 

 called attention to the Obelisks of Egypt, and the huge stones at 

 Baalbeck which he had personally examined and measured in the 

 spring of the present year. As however this paper will appear 

 in a subsequent portion of the Magazine it is unnecessary to refer 

 to it further. 



