28 The Thirty-Hourth General Meeting. 
the whole of the Local Secretaries, with the exception of Dr. 
Highmore (Bradford-on-Aven), who resigned on leaving the county, 
In regard to the latter, the vacancy was not filled, but the election 
was left to the General Committee, which met in October and 
appointed Dr. Melville Thompson. Mr. Hart and Mr, Clark were 
re-elected auditors, on the motion of Mr. Pontina, seconded by 
Mr. BEtt. 
Tue Bisnop read a letter from the Rev. E. Wyld, of Mere, calling 
attention to some discoveries that had been made at the old castle 
at Mere, and asking for advice as to how he should proceed with 
the excavations, upon which GxrNneraL Pirr-Rivers consented to 
visit Mere, in order to give Mr. Wyld the required advice. 
Tue BisHor said, in speaking on behalf of this Society, at the 
Meeting of the Archeological Institute, he was led to ask some 
explanation how it was in so many years they had not been able to 
carry out the object for which they were founded. These Meetings 
were times of refreshing the Societies, but they were times also of 
visitation, and they ought to stir up the Members to make up their 
minds as to what they were going todo. He wanted that day to 
put before the Members of the Society present and through them 
those who were absent this question :—Whether they ought not to 
begin at once to form a methodical plan for collecting materials 
from every parish in the county so that the Mayazine should not only 
represent the private tastes and interests of Members—however 
eminent they might be— but should cover the whole of the ground ? 
He wanted to know if anyone could give some idea of what had 
been done and what remained to be done; or whether it might be 
possible to appoint a Committee to draw up a report of what had 
been done and with regard to what yet remained, and to construct 
a methodical plan of putting into pigeon holes—as it were—the in- 
formation that the future historian might want. Certain books had 
been published upon certain matters, but it was a question whether 
these might not be enlarged upon. At any rate a great deal re- 
mained to be done with regard to monumental remains, for, as 
illustrating the history of art, these must be very valuable. He 
merely indicated now in a rough manner what he thought ought to 
