292 The Forty-Sixth General Meeting. 
satisfactory condition of affairs. The serious loss of Members 
referred to below will, however, affect the accounts another year. 
“Numbers 90 and 91 of the Magazine have been issued at the 
regular interval, and with them a Catalogue of the Drawings, 
Prints, and Maps in the Library, and Part VI. of the Wiltshire 
Inquisitions of Charles I. 
“Tt is hoped that the present series of Inquisitions, which has 
been issued to Members in parts for some years past, will be con- 
cluded this year, after which it is proposed to publish an earlier — 
series. 
“During the year we have lost seventeen Members by death and 
seventeen by resignation, whilst fifteen new Members only have 
joined us, leaving our number three hundred and fifty-one, as — 
against three hundred and seventy last year. We feel sure that — 
the value and use of the Society is not considered to be any less — 
than it has been in'the past, either in the county or out of it, and — 
that it only requires greater activity on the part of the Honorary — 
Local Secretaries and the friends of the Society generally to bring — 
up the numbers to the former level. Of the Members whose loss — 
by death we have to deplore, first and foremost must we mention — 
the Rev. Alfred Charles Smith, an original Member of the 
Society, for many years an indefatigable Hon. Secretary and of 
recent years a Vice-president. An obituary notice of him appears 
in the last number of the Magazine. We may mention also the 
Rev. W. H. Awdry, Mr. A. L. Goddard, and Mr. W. W. Ravenhill 
as old friends of long standing and valued Members, and Sir E. 
Antrobus, Bart., one of our Trustees. 
“At the Museum some cases, which had been placed there by 
Mr. William Qunnington many years ago, and which the Society 
had used during that time gratuitously, have been purchased from — 
him. Other additions have been made and acknowledged in the - 
Magazine. 
“A considerable number of Wiltshire books have been added ton 
the Library. The note as to ‘ Wiltshire books wanted’ on the 
cover of the Magazine has received kind attention from several 
friends. We are indebted to Mr. F. M. Willis for a valuable 
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