98 The Thirty-third General Meeting. 
with much regret, the very heavy losses which the Society has 
sustained in the death of several of its most honoured Members 
since this time last year. The loss of such men as Canon Rich 
Jones, one of our most able and indefatigable fellow-workers in the 
Society (a memoir of whom has already appeared in the Magazine), 
and more recently of Mr. William Lony, of West Hay, Wrington, 
to whom we are so deeply indebted for his admirable treatises on 
Abury and Stonehenge, the former published in the fourth, the 
latter in the sixteenth volume of the Magazine, are heavy blows 
indeed to the Society, nor can their names be mentioned here without 
a feeling of deep regret that their voices will be no longer heard 
amongst us. We have, moreover, to lament the deaths of many 
other valued members, of whom we may mention the late Earl of 
Shaftesbury ; Archbishop Errington; the Right Rev. Dr. Parfitt ; 
Mr. Rigden, the very hospitable Mayor of Salisbury when the 
Society met there in 1865; Colonel Perry Keene, who in 1869 
presented the Society with the very curious and valuable original 
Inquisition on Ruth Pierce, of Devizes Market Place renown ; Mr. 
Arthur Gore, of Melksham, an original Member of the Society, 
and a very frequent attendant at our Annual Meetings, and who 
within a few weeks of his death sent me, for the Museum, a valuable 
silver desk seal of the Tropenell family. There have been many other 
losses, we regret to say, through death, removal from the county, or 
resignation, which have diminished our numbers, so that the names 
of Members now on the books amount only to three hundred and 
forty-one, being a decrease of fourteen since last year. In regard 
to out-door work, an examination of the very important barrow 
at Heytesbury, well-known as the ‘ Bowlsbury Barrow,’ was under- 
taken at the spring of this year by Mr. William and Mr. Henry 
Cunnington, who perseveringly continued their investigations in 
this immense and difficult mound during many days, and of which 
we hope to print a detailed account in the next number of the 
Magazine. Sufficient for the present to say that some interesting 
skulls and other human bones were exhumed, some of the skulls 
cleft as if with a sword! But I need not add that of course no im- 
plements other than flint flakes were found in this veritable specimen 
