THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



" MULT0EUM MANIBUS GEANDE LEYATUE ONUS." Ovid. 



THE THIRTIETH GENERAL MEETING 



OP THE 



EHtltsljtre arrfjattloatcal an* Natural ©tstorg Soctetg, 



HELD AT SHAFTESBURY, 

 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, August Uh, 1th, and Mh, 



1884. 



sHE above Society met at Shaftesbury this year, and had a 

 , \ most enjoyable meeting, to which the magnificence of the 

 Ser contributed not a little, while the programme offered at- 

 tractions of no ordinary kind in the beautiful drives through rich 

 vales and over high downs in the extreme south-western portion of 

 our county, much of which had never been visited by the Society, 

 and other portions a long time ago ; for three-and-twenty years have 

 elapsed since the Members were congregated at Shaftesbury in 1861, 

 under the presidency of Mr. Sotheron Estcourt ; and then the 

 excursions took different directions to those selected on the present 

 occasion. 



The general meeting was held at the Town Hall, and was nu- 

 merously attended, the room being well filled with the archaeologists 

 who annually attend these meetings, supplemented with a good 

 contingent of ladies and gentlemen from the town and neighbour- 

 hood of Shaftesbury. The President, Mr. Nevil Story Maskelyne, 

 M.P., who was on the point of leaving England for the United States 

 of America, and could only spare one day's absence from London, 

 took the chair at about three o'clock, and opened the proceedings 

 by calling on one of the Secretaries (the Rev. A. C. Smith) to read 



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