THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



" 31ULT0RUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATOR ONUS," Ovid. 



THE ELEVENTH GENERAL MEETING- 



OF THE 



PWtefjtre archaeological an* Natural Sfetorg Soctctg, 



HELD AT SALISBURY, 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, September, IWi, lith, and 15th, 



1865. 1 



president of the meeting, 

 The Right Honourable Earl Nelson. 



ppj|||HE Society assembled for its Eleventh Annual Meeting on 

 Wednesday, September 13th, at the Council Chamber, 

 Salisbury, when a very large gathering of ladies and gentlemen 

 was collected from all portions of the county. At two o'clock 

 precisely The Right Hon. the Earl Nelson, President of the 

 Society, took the chair. 



The Mayor of Salisbury (R. H. Rigden, Esq.) said that before 

 the Chairman opened the proceedings of that meeting, he desired 

 on behalf of the citizens of Salisbury, himself and the Town 

 Council, to bid the Society welcome to this ancient city. The 

 citizens felt very much flattered by the Society's visit : and he 

 trusted that the exertions they should make would show the 

 members of the Society how much they appreciated the honour. 



1 The Editors of the Magazine desire to acknowledge the very great assistance 

 they have derived in preparing their Report of this meeting from the Wiltshire 

 County Mirror, and from the Salisbury Journal, from whose columns they 

 herein quote at considerable length. 



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