242 The Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting. 
The resolution having been carried with acclamation, Mr. Surru 
said he hardly knew how to thank the Society for the resolution 
they had just adopted. He had received many kindnesses from the 
Society in times past—for instance, when his book was burnt in 
the fire in Paternoster Row, the Society most generously undertook 
the cost of a second edition, and when his daughter was married a 
very handsome present was given her in recognition—as they were 
pleased to say—of his services to them as Secretary. His work as 
Secretary had always been a great pleasure to him, but he felt that 
it was time to resign it into younger hands now. It was sometimes 
desirable to have an infusion of fresh blood. Moreover, he felt that 
he could not have given up his office at a better time, for the Society 
was never more flourishing than it was at the present time. 
Resolutions were then carried that the names of the Right Rev. 
the Lord Bishop of Salisbury and the Rev. A. C. Smith be added 
to the list of Vice-Presidents of the Society, and that the Rev. 
E. H. Goddard be appointed one of the General Secretaries and 
Editor of the Magazine in the room of Mr. Smith. 
Tue Presipent then read the first part of his inaugural address, 
on his excavation of the Romano-British villages at Rotherley and 
Woodcuts, and at Bokerly Dyke, in the extreme south of the county, 
illustrating his paper by references to the numerous diagrams ex- 
hibited on the walls. It is needless to say that this paper was of 
very great interest and value, but as it will appear in full ata 
later page of this Magazine further mention of it here is un- 
necessary. 
The Rev. W. C. Pienperiezats said that there was one matter 
which he had had occasion to bring before the notice of the Council 
of the Society, and which their Secretaries thought would must 
fittingly be mentioned at that Meeting. Ten years ago, when the 
British Archzological Association held a Meeting in Devizes, in 
conjunction with that of their own Society, a curious mistake had 
been made by two speakers with regard to the builder of Devizes 
Castle, His attention had chanced to be called to this last year 
when he was employed upon the index to their Magazine; and he 
thought that, as one of the main objects of the Society was the 
