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to him. More especially the success of the Annual Meetings for 

 many years past has chiefly depended upon his organisation and 

 on the unfailing tact and courtesy with which he has carried out 

 arrangements that are often very troublesome and exacting. The 

 Committee, in accepting his resignation, desire to express their 

 sense of the ungrudging services rendered by him to the Society 

 for so long a period, and of the great loss which the Society will 

 sustain by their cessation. The Committee recommend the ap- 

 pointment of Mr. Edward 0. P. Bouverie to fill the vacancy. 



" In consequence of the death of Mr. Forrester, a valued Member 

 of the Society for many years, the post of Hon. Local Sec at 

 Malmesbury becomes vacant. Mr. H. Wilkin s, of Calne, resigns 

 a like post on the ground that he is no longer up to active service 

 The Committee hope to fill these vacancies at an early meeting. 



" The Committee look forward to a large and important Meeting 

 in Devizes, and are assured that the Society and its Members will 

 receive a hearty welcome from the Mayor and Corporation and the 

 inhabitants of this ancient borough." 



The Chairman expressed his regret at the resignation by Mr. 

 Medlicott of the office of Hon. Secretary, which he had held so 

 long and filled so well, and Mil. W. He ward Bell, in moving the 

 adoption of the Eeport, and Me. Talbot, in seconding, both spoke 

 of the great loss the Society was suffering by his resignation, and 

 of the large amount of work which for so many years he had 

 undertaken, more especially in the organisation of the Annual 

 ! Meetings, and of his unfailing tact and courtesy towards all. 



Mr. Edwin Slopek, F.G.S., suggested that every Member of 

 i the Society should pledge himself to find one new Member during 

 I the year, and so raise the numbers to what they ought to be. The 

 ; re-election of the Officers of the Society, with the appointment of 

 | Mr. Edavard 0. P. Bouverie in the place of Mr. Medlicott, as 

 !l Hon. Secretary, was moved by Mr. G-. Simpson and seconded by 

 ! Archdeacon Buchanan, who, in the course of his speech, paid a 

 | warm tribute to Mr. Medlicott. The Kev. J. G. Watson mentioned 

 that he would be glad to have the assistance of the Officers of the 



