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REPORT, 
which was as follows :— 
“ Your Committee reports that they have held five meetings since 
the last Annual General Meeting, at which many matters of interest 
and importance to the Society have come under consideration. 
“The total number of members on the books at the last General 
Annual Meeting (including, as usual, the Societies with which publi- 
cations are exchanged), was stated to be three hundred and seventy- 
three. Since that date we have lost by death six members, and five 
by resignation. On the other hand seven new members have been 
elected, showing as the total number of members on the Ist July 
last three hundred and sixty-nine, a decrease of four. 
* None of the Members whose loss we have to deplore were original 
Members. Amongst them the name of the Right Hon. Edward P. 
Bouverie will be remembered by us as a distinguished Member of 
our Society. His Parliamentary duties in former days, and more 
recently his numerous business engagements, allowed him but little 
time for the enjoyment of country life, but he was known as a keen 
observer of all that passed around him, and from time to time he 
has notified the appearance of a rare bird on the Downs, or some 
other object of interest to the Society, while in 1874 he took an 
aetive part at our Annual Meeting. The Rev. Prebendary Scarth, 
Rector of Wrington, died last winter at Tangiers. He had been 
for years one of the most active members of the Somersetshire 
Archzological Soeiety, and was at one time a member of our Society 
also. He took an active part in the opening of the Blackmore 
Museum. Sir Daniel Gooch, Bart., had been a Member since 1873. 
The movement which has led to that great county undertaking, the 
rescue from ruin of the grand Church at Edington, was initiated 
during the incumbency of the Rev. H. Cave-Brown-Cave, who took 
the greatest interest in the work up to his death. 
« Amongst the names of those who have resigned we would note 
that of Mr, Robert Elwell, our Local Honorary Secretary for the 
Highworth district—creating a vacancy which we hope may be 
filled during this Meeting—and also that of the Rev. T. A. Preston, 
who has left the county, but whose name will ever be held in grateful 
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