The Eleventh General Meeting. 



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or sleeping member), will, I am sure, convince you all that we 

 have done well in coming to Salisbury in 1865. Two excursions 

 have been planned — that to Stonehenge, which it is proposed to 

 approach in a different manner: the new route will combine 

 many fresh points of interest. Mr. Duke's house at Lake, 



|and the interesting museum which it contains, will of itself make 



| this excursion a most pleasing and instructive one. On the second 

 day we have proposed to take you down the Chalk Valley (never 

 before visited by us), where Bishopstone Church and Norrington 

 House — one of the finest specimens of the old manor house in 

 Wiltshire, the beauties of which Mr. J. H. Parker, of Oxford, has 



! kindly undertaken to point out on the spot, — will ensure a goodly 



j attendance. 



The noble Earl concluded his able address amidst general ap- 

 plause : and then called upon Mr. Gammer Parry to read a paper on 

 Architectural Colouring ; which that gentleman did to the great 

 j satisfaction of his audience; and which valuable contribution will 

 I be found in another part of the Magazine. 



Dr. H. P. Blackmore next read a very carefully prepared and 

 instructive paper on " Recent discovery of Flint Implements in the 

 Drift near Salisbury," which will also be found in the Magazine. 

 At its conclusion the President observed that the question just 

 brought before the Society possessed a special interest, for at the 

 Museum in St. Anns Street, was to be seen a most valuable series 

 of these implements : moreover the subject had hitherto received 

 little attention from the Society : but he now trusted to hear some 

 remarks upon it from other parts of the room. 



Mr. Cunnington thought the members of the Society might 

 fairly congratulate themselves not only on the presence of so many 

 striking geological phenomena in that immediate neighbourhood, 

 > but also on the fact that they had, in Dr. Blackmore, so able an 

 historian of facts as they occurred. (Applause.) The neighbour- 

 hood of Salisbury was, as Dr. Blackmore had said, one of the most 

 remarkable spots in this country for the discovery of the imple- 

 ments of ancient races of men. With one exception, the collection in 

 the Salisbury Museum was the finest extant. M. Boucher de Perthes 



