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The Seventeenth General Meeting. 



Stevens, and we shall have productions from the able pens of Mr. 

 Cunning-ton and Dr. Blackmore. On Friday, Dr. Blackmore and 

 Mr. Stevens have generously asked the members to lunch at the 

 Blackmore Museum, where a most interesting paper will be delivered 

 by the Rev. Canon Greenwell, on " The Quarrying of Flint for the 

 Manufacture of Flint Implements ; 33 and a paper by the Rev. 

 W. C. Lukis, "On the Lines of Stones and Circles of Carnac, in 

 Brittany.'" We close the day by a visit to Longford Castle, which 

 we are enabled to see through the kindness of Lord Radnor. It is 

 a singular edifice, built by Sir Thomas Gorges, from a Danish 

 model. It contains many choice antiquities and magnificent paint- 

 ings. I trust that I have not trespassed on your time, and that 

 you will forgive my inability to deal with the subjects into which 

 we are met to inquire. I will not detain you any longer, further 

 than to introduce to you the Rev. A. C. Smith, one of the Secre- 

 taries, who will read the annual report of the Society. 



The Rev. A. C. Smith said that before he read the Report, which 

 was generally one of the dullest and driest of documents, he was 

 sure he was only expressing the feelings of the meeting if he pro- 

 posed a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Penruddocke for his very 

 admirable address. Nothing could more conclusively show the 

 discretion and wisdom of the Council in proposing Mr. Penruddocke 

 as their President for the next three years ; and he heartily con- 

 gratulated the Society on its choice. He then proceeded to read 



THE REPORT FOR 1870. 



"The Committee of the "Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society, in presenting its annual report of the progress 

 during the past year and present position of that body, desires to 

 congratulate the members on the continued advance and general 

 well-being of the Society. The number of names now on the books 

 amounts to the goodly figure 334, which is a considerable increase 

 since the meeting at Chippenham last year. 



" Your Committee has at the same time to deplore the loss of 

 some of our oldest members, and amongst these should be enumerated 

 the late Earl of Radnor, and the Rev. Richard Crawley ; as well as 



