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The Thirty-Sixth General Meeting. 



this interesting earthwork. We are confident that the Members of 

 the Society generally would desire to join the Committee in cordially 

 thanking the General for this great work of excavation, which he 

 is carrying on entirely at his own expense (for he generously declines 

 any help from the Society) , and we shall all await the result of his 

 further researches with no little interest. 



" In conclusion the Committee again invites the active co- 

 operation of Members of the Society in all parts of the county, 

 reminding them how very much yet remains to be investigated and 

 brought to light, and what a large field of enquiry yet offers itself 

 on all sides. For though your committee cannot but be aware that 

 the Society has done something towards elucidating some of the 

 obscure details of the history of the county, and calling attention 

 to some branches of its natural history, it is profoundly sensible 

 that it has as yet only touched the border of these subjects, and 

 that there is still a great work to be carried on before we can be 

 said to have mastered the antiquities as well as the natural history 

 and the general history of Wiltshire." 



The Rev. W. P. S. Bingham, in proposing the adoption of the 

 Report, said that he hoped that the holding of the Meeting at 

 Westbury would lead to a considerable increase of Members from 

 that neighbourhood. At present, he thought, the Westbury district 

 was not at all adequately represented in the Society. He thought 

 that the thanks of the Meeting were due to Mr. Smith, for the 

 pains and trouble he had taken in the work of the Society during 

 the past year, and in drawing up the Report they had just heard. 

 He also thought that the thanks of the Meeting ought to be con- 

 veyed to General Pitt-Rivers, for the very valuable work he had 

 undertaken in the excavation of Wansdyke. Mr. H. J. F. Swayne 

 having seconded the motion the Report was carried. 



On the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Mr. E. O. Bouverie, 

 the whole of the Officers of the Society were re-elected to office. 



The Chairman then called on the Rev. Canon Jackson to read 

 " Some Notes on Westbury History." It is needless to say that 

 this paper was listened to with the greatest attention, and that at 

 its conclusion a vote of thanks to Canon Jackson, proposed by the 



