100 The Thirty-third General Meeting. 
Wiltshire shall be worked out in every direction and made known. 
But that, we make bold to say, is a work which will tax the energies 
of Wiltshire archeologists and Wiltshire zoologists in every branch 
of science for many a generation to come, so much is there yet to 
learn on all those subjects upon which our Society has now, for 
thirty years, been engaged.” 
Taz Prusipunt, before asking some gentleman to move the 
adoption of the report, called on them all to endeavour to increase 
the Society in point of numbers, and he would certainly endorse 
every word said by their Secretary as to the very great importance 
of local inquiries. When he said that some of the most important 
points of what was now called old English, but what they used to 
eall Anglo-Saxon history, depended upon the identification of places, 
where there were many places of the same name, and that identifi- 
cation could only be the result of very careful local observation and 
research, he thought he urged at least one cogent reason for endorsing 
what their Secretary had said. And it is in the power of almost 
anyone who has leisure and an enquiring spirit to make some addition 
to the records that give interest to a neighbourhood, whether it be 
by hunting up and collecting facts regarding the past or putting on 
record what is interesting among their contemporaries. He might 
mention as a matter of some interest to the Swindon neighbourhood, 
that in the last year an interesting collection of facts, and gossip, 
and old records in connection with Swindon and its district, had been 
published there by Mr. William Morris, editor of the Swindon 
Advertiser. He was sure anyone who would take that work up 
would find how much could be done by one who would collect the facts 
around him within his own memory and the memory of his friends. 
The Ruy. E. Awopry briefly proposed, and the Ruv. H. K. 
AwnxsTELL seconded, the adoption of the report, and after a few 
remarks from Mr. W. Cunnineron as to the falling-off of Members, 
it was agreed to. 
Tun Prustpent then proposed the re-election of the Secretaries 
(the Rev. A.C. Smith, and Mr. H. E. Medlicott), the Curators of the 
_Museum, the Local Secretaries, and the Committee, and he also pro- 
posed the name of Mr. C. E. H. A. Colston as Treasurer to the Society. 
