THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



" MULTOEUM MANIBUS GRANDE LEVATUR ONUS." — Ovhd. 



Jnnual faceting anb Report, 1878. 



P§p3§HE General Meeting* of the Society for receiving the report, 

 PP^P electing officers for the ensuing year, and other formal 

 business, was held in the Library of the Museum, Devizes, on 

 Wednesday, November 6th, 1878, at three o'clock; the Rev. Canon 

 Jackson in the chair. 

 The Rev. A. C. Smith, one of the Honorary Secretaries, read the 



REPORT FOR 1878. 



cc The Committee of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural 

 History Society desires to present to the Members a short Report 

 of the proceedings of the past twelve months. 



" As regards our numbers, we have to lament the decease of some 

 of our most valued members ; indeed this has been a year of un- 

 precedented losses to the Society. Death has robbed us of no less 

 than twelve of our body, of whom five were original Members, in- 

 cluding the late Marquis of Ailesbury; the Rev. Alfred Smith, o£ 

 Old Park; Mr. Richard Mullings, of Cirencester; and Mr. W. C. 

 Merriman, of Marlborough : while of those holding office in the 

 Society we have to mention Mr. William Blackmore, one of our 

 Vice-Presidents, whose name will ever be held in esteemed remem- 

 brance in this county as the munificent founder of the Blackmore 

 Museum, at Salisbury, a museum of pre-historic archaeology, second 

 to none in the world. We have also lost another Vice-President in 

 Sir John Awdry, who also held office as President for four years, 

 and than whom none evinced greater or more continued interest in 

 the Society from its inauguration to the day of his decease. And 

 last of all our losses, but by no means least, by the death of Mr. 

 vol. xviii. — no. Lin. l 



