174 The Thirty-eighth General Meeting. 
may be hoped, worthily to maintain the reputation of our Society. . 
“We have experienced since our last Annual Meeting the loss by 
death of several valued Members, amongst them Mr. W. Proctor, 
Mr. Job Edwards, Mr. H. M. Clarke—who took much interest in 
our work so long as he resided in the connty—and our most revered 
Vice-President, Canon Jackson, who were all original Members ; 
Lord Heytesbury—who joined us in 1866, and was a valued supporter 
—the Rev. de Courey Meade—who, with Mrs, Meade, often joined 
us on the annual excursion—and Mr. W. Morris, of Swindon— who, 
though he only became a Member in 1886, has for some years been 
an ardent archeologist. We are sorry to find that, from one cause 
or another, some eight or nine gentlemen have resigned their mem- 
bership. Several new members, however, have been elected, and 
our numbers on the Ist instant amounted to three hundred and 
seventy-eight, as against three hundred and sixty-nine as recorded 
in our last report. We still hope to see our membership increase to 
four hundred, and we think that, by a little exertion on the part of 
the Officers, Local Secretaries, and others who will take an active 
interest in the Society, this may yet be accomplished. 
“ Conspicuous amongst the names of those whose loss we deplore 
is, of course, that of our most venerable friend, Canon Jackson, one 
of the chief founders of the Society, first Editor of the Magazine, 
and one of the first two Honorary Secretaries. The Committee 
has recorded on its minutes that Canon Jackson has provided more 
material for a history of the county than any other Member of the 
Society, and that the topographical and historical papers delivered 
by him with inimitable address at almost every Annual Meeting will 
ever be remembered with pleasure by those privileged to hear them. 
A copy of a resolution of condolence passed in Committee was for- 
warded to Mr. J. Houlton Jackson. An interesting memorial 
notice of our dear old friend appeared it the last number of the 
Magazine. The Committee hopes that a fund may be raised to 
memorialise in some suitable way the long connection of the Canon 
with our Society. 
“Nos. 74 and 75 of the Magazine have been issued since our last 
Meeting, completing vol. xxv. The Committee feels that the Editor 
