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The Forty- Seventh General Meeting. 



with No. 93 of the Magazine. As we anticipated in our report last 

 year, owing to a serious falling off in the number of our Members 

 the funds have suffered. There is room for confident hope, 

 however, that our Society will continue to receive the support of 

 those interested in archaeology and natural history in all parts of 

 the county. No. 92 of the Magazine was issued last December, 

 and completed the 30th volume, and with it a new list of members. 

 Appendix III. of ' Additions to the Library,' and Part VII. of 

 ' Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem,' were issued with it. No. 93 

 has just been issued on much improved paper. The attention of 

 Members and other readers of the Magazine may be drawn to the 

 ' Notices to Members' both inside and outside the covers. Enquiries 

 are made occasionally as to matters which have been already 

 explained or made known by means of such notices. 



" As to the number of Members, whilst we have lost eleven by 

 death and twenty-one by resignation, thirty-five new Members 

 have been elected, as against fifteen only in the previous year, 

 bringing up our total number to three hundred and fifty-four. 



" During the last year a certain number of Members have 

 bestirred themselves to induce their friends and neighbours to join 

 the Society, with the result that a considerable body of new 

 Members has been secured. It is greatly to be wished that every 

 Member would look round his own neighbourhood and see who 

 there is who might be asked to join, and either ask them himself, 

 or communicate with one of the Honorary Secretaries. 



" Of those removed from our list by death, we may mention 

 especially Sir Gabriel Goldney, Bart., Lieut. -General Pitt-Rivers, 

 Sir Henry Bruce Meux, Bart., and C. Penruddocke, Esq., as 

 former Presidents, and other original or very old members and 

 supporters such as Dr. Jennings, and the Earl of Radnor as a 

 generous subscriber. Of course we have especially to deplore the 

 loss of Lieut.-General Pitt-Rivers, probably the most distinguished 

 Member the Society has ever had. An obituary notice and a list of 

 his most valuable and interesting works appears in the June number 

 of the Magazine. 



" At the Museum we are still in want of an ornithologist who 



