182 The Thirty-Fifth General Meeting. 
took the chair, and opened the proceedings by calling on one of the 
General Secretaries to read 
THE REPORT, ¢ 
which the Rev. A. C. Smirx read as follows:— 
“The Committee has once more the pleasure of recording the 
general progress of the Society, the number of names now on the 
books amounting to three hundred and sixty-three, being an increase 
of thirteen since this time last year. We have, at the same time, to 
deplore the death of no less than nine of our number, and amongst 
them are two of our original Members, viz., Mr. Leach, of Devizes 
Castle, who on more than one occasion hospitably received the Society 
therein, and our highly valued and deeply lamented Curator, Mr. 
Henry Cunnington, to whose unwearied exertions, and those of many 
members of his family, we are altogether indebted for the excellent 
condition of our Museum, and who was always most indefatigable 
in promoting the objects of our Society by every means in his power. 
This, indeed, is a loss for the Society, the extent of which we have 
not yet realised, and we feel that for perseverance and energy, com- 
bined with archeological knowledge and skill, our late Curator was 
one whom we cannot replace, and all those who have worked with 
him on the Committee still miss, and shall long continue to miss, 
the active part he took in the working of the Society. In addition 
to these original Members we should also specially mention the loss 
of Mr. Robert Clark, of Devizes, who for more than twenty years 
was one of the most regular attendants on the Committee; also the 
Rev. E. L. Barnwell, of Melksham House, who was a very great 
authority on archzological subjects, and up to the time of his death 
and for many years previously was also a Member of our Committee ; 
and again, Mr. Alfred Seymour, of Knoyle, some time Member for 
Salisbury, and whose hospitable entertainment of the Society during 
the Shaftesbury Meeting in 1884 will be in the recollection of all 
who attended that Meeting. We would also mention with regret 
the loss of Mr. S. B. Merriman, of London; Sir William Guise, of 
Elmore Court, Gloucester ; and Mrs. Whinfield, of Woodleigh, 
Bradford-on-Avon, 
