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THE NINETEENTH MEETING 



OF THE 



BHtltjsfttre ^rrfjaeologtcal anti Natural 5?fetorrj Soctetrj, 



HELD AT TROWBRIDGE, 



Wednesday , Thursday, and Friday, 7 th, 8th, and 9th of August, 1872. 



PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, 



Charles Penruddocke, Esq. 



p^pjHE proceedings of the Nineteenth Meeting of the Society 

 gM^i opened at the Court Hall, Trowbridge, at one o'clock, on 

 [Wednesday, August 9th, the President of the Society, Charles 

 JPenruddocke, Esq., in the chair; who called upon one of the Honorary 

 jSecretaries, Rev. A. C. Smith, to read the Report of last year's 

 jproceedings and our present position, which that gentleman did as 



I" follows : — 

 REPORT FOR 1872. 

 " The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society offers its Report of the operations of the Society 

 I during the last twelvemonths with singular satisfaction, inasmuch 

 i as it is at length able to announce that the acquisition of suitable 

 premises for a library and museum at Devizes has been effected, and 

 ( that the funds requisite for their purchase have, through the liberality 

 of kind friends been collected, and that the buildings are now in 

 j| course of alteration and preparation for their requirements, and that 

 I the Society will very shortly be placed in the happy position of 

 |J occupying apartments of their own, where they can more satisfactorily 

 bestow their collections, and where the members of the Society can 

 more conveniently examine the Archaeological and Natural History 

 treasures, and consult the books in their possession. 



" Your Committee desires to recall to your recollection that one of 

 the principal objects which the Society had in view from its inau- 

 guration in 1853, was, by its first Rule, f to preserve, by the 

 formation of a library and museum, illustrations of the history of the 



