

The Eleventh General Meeting. 3 
“In conclusion, the Committee very earnestly invites help from 
all portions of the county in the researches and investigations it 
desires to pursue, assured that while very much remains to be done 
in the way of exploring what is hidden, unravelling what is com- 
plicated and tangled, clearing away popular errors, and promoting 
generally a more accurate knowledge of the history of our county, 
as well ds the works of creation with which we are surrounded, 
this can only be effectually done by the help of many: help which 
the Committee trusts will not be withheld by those whose occupa- 
tions, pursuits, or tastes, enable them to give assistance.” 
Mr. Cunnineton begged to add one gratifying sentence to the 
Report: it was to the effect that the Society had a balance in their 
banker’s hands, at that moment, of £195. 
The Cuarrman then put the motion to the meeting that the 
Report be approved and printed; which was agreed to unanimously. 
The various officers of the Society were then elected: Sir John 
Wither Awdry as President for the three years ensuing. F. A.S. 
Locke, Esq., as Treasurer. There were also re-elected the General 
Secretaries, Rev. A. O. Smith and Mr. Cunnington: the Local 
Secretaries with the additions of Rev. W. C. Plenderleath for 
Calne, and Mr. E. T. Stevens for Salisbury: and the Council. 
The noble Prestpent then addressed the meeting as follows :— 
Ladies and Gentlemen,—This is the third and last year of my 
presidency, and although one year of it has been passed without 
our usual annual gathering, the pleasing recollections of our 
meeting at Devizes are still fresh in my memory,and made me anxious 
to call you together once more before I resign my temporary office. 
It may be difficult to find objects of interest that have not been 
previously visited sufficient to keep up our annual gatherings, but 
I am convinced that a great deal of the interest manifested in our 
Society would cease if our meetings were less frequent than alternate 
years. It was this conviction which induced me to press for our 
meeting this year, although the important meeting of the Archzo- 
logical Institute last month in a neighbouring county, and in our 
very diocese, would have afforded a better excuse for a second post- 
ponement than the Social Science meeting at Bath afforded us last 
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