ORNITHOLOGY OF WILTS, (No. XV.): By the Rev. A. C. Smith, M.A. ON THE EXISTING STRUCTURE OF LACOCK ABBEY: By C. H. Talbot, Esq. .... PAGE 133 135 152 185 192 216 .... 221 233 242 248 249 252 256 258 ON A CRAPAUDINE LOCKET Found at Devizes: By Mr. Cunnington BELL & DALDY, 186, FLEET STREET; J. R. SMITH, 36, SоHо Square. THE WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 66 MULTORUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS,”—Ovid. THE SIXTEENTH GENERAL MEETING OF THE Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society, HELD AT CHIPPENHAM, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 7th, 8th, and 9th September, 1869. PRESIDENT OF THE MEETING, SIR JOHN WITHER AWDRY. HE proceedings of the Sixteenth Anniversary Meeting of the Society, opened at the New Hall, Chippenham, on Tuesday, September 7th, at 1.30 p.m., by the President of the Society, Sir John Awdry, taking the chair, and calling upon the Rev. A. C. Smith (one of the General Secretaries,) to read THE REPORT. "The Committee of the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society has once more the satisfaction of reporting on this the seventeenth anniversary of its formation, the continued prosperity of the Society. The number of names on the books now amounts to 317, being slightly above the average at which we usually stand, and almost exactly the same as last year, when the number was recorded as 313. "Your Committee has at the same time to lament the loss of several influential members, who by the interest they evinced at our annual meetings, or by their contributions to the pages of our Magazine, deserve special mention in this report. Amongst these we beg to specify the Rev. Canon Prower, of Purton; Mr. Bendry Brooke, of Malmesbury; and, above all, the late Bishop of Salisbury, VOL XII. NO. XXXV. M |