4 Report of the Society for the Year July, 1893 — hdy, 1894. 



present received a most cordial and hospitable welcome, not only in 

 Warminster itself, but throughout the district. This year the Com- 

 mittee selected Marlborough as its meeting-place, under the auspices 

 of Sir Henry Bruce Meux, Bart., our new President. Marlborough 

 was visited in September, 1859, and in August, 1879. The records 

 of both Meetings contain much of permanent interest to the archse- 

 ologist. The excursions on both occasions were seriously interfered 

 with by the weather, the storm on Clench Common, on the 13th 

 August, 1879, being a memorable one, even for that year, the 

 wettest of the century. It is to be hoped we may be more favoured 

 in July, 1894. The greater part of the ground to be covered during 

 this Meeting was never visited from Marlborough before. Eamsbury 

 and Aldbourne were visited from Hungerford in 1867, but the 

 records of that Meeting are comparatively brief, and so little in the 

 way of papers describing the places visited on the excursions then 

 made seems to have found its way into the Magazine, that nearly 

 .all we hope to see on the first day may be regarded as new to the 

 Society. 



" We are fortunate in having with us the historian of the Hundred 

 of Eamsbury, who has most kindly undertaken to act as our guide 

 during the greater part of the day. 



" In conclusion, the Committee urges the Members not to relax 

 their efforts. In this county, so remarkable for its antiquities, 

 nobody can for a moment doubt that much yet remains to be dis- 

 covered and explained who will take the trouble to inspect the 

 collection of most interesting objects arranged in the Town Hall, 

 nearly the whole of which have been brought to light since we last 

 visited Marlborough. As Sir John Lubbock said here in 1879, 

 ' What has been done in comparison with what remains to do is 

 really but a flea-bite in the ocean,' quoting a graphic simile of Sir 

 Greorge Balfour's in the House of Commons a few days before." 



