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as moral beings, as Englishmen, and as Christians, and that 

 it often aflPorded encouragement to us to proceed in the course 

 which our duty pointed out as belonging to us. 



The right hon. gentleman then called upon the Rev. A. C Smith 

 (one of the Secretaries) to read the report. 



REPORT FOR 1860. 



"The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society has again the satisfaction of congratulating its 

 members on the continued prosperity of the Society, the number 

 of names now on its books, amounting to 391, being a slight increase 

 since last year, and that notwithstanding our loss by death, with- 

 drawal, or removal from the county of no less than 15 of our former 

 members. 



" Among these, the recent death of one of the most active of 

 our body seems to call forth special regret on the part of the Society ; 

 indeed it would be impossible to pass over in silence the grievous 

 loss we have sustained in Mr. Carrington : he was from the first a 

 sincere and steady friend to the Society ; he thoroughly enjoyed 

 the pursuits and the researches connected with Wiltshire history, was 

 very diligent in instituting them, and as invariably to be depended 

 on, as ready even at personal inconvenience and sacrifice of time 

 and trouble, to assist others. Those who were present at the 

 Marlborough meeting last year, will not soon forget how greatly 

 it was indebted to him for the lively and good-humoured spirit that 

 prevailed throughout ; and the readers of the Wiltshire Magazine 

 will regret the discontinuance of the lighter and amusing articles 

 by which he so often assisted the public in the digestion of its 

 more solid contents. 



" With regard to the financial position of the Society, your 

 Committee must again, though with great reluctance, call your 

 attention to the amount of subscriptions in arrear and unpaid, the 

 former amounting to £85, the latter to £95 ; in all £180. It will 

 readily be seen that this deficiency must operate to the serious 

 injury of the Society, as well as to the embarrassment of your 

 Committee, and they appeal earnestly to those now in arrear not to 



