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The Thirty -fifth General Meeting. 



took the chair, and opened the proceedings by calling on one of the 

 General Secretaries to read 



THE REPORT, 



which the Rev. A. C. Smith read as follows : — 



" The Committee has once more the pleasure of recording the 

 general progress of the Society, the number of names now on the 

 books amounting to three hundred and sixty-three, being an increase 

 of thirteen since this time last year. We have, at the same time, to 

 deplore the death of no less than nine of our number, and amongst 

 them are two of our original Members, viz., Mr. Leach, of Devizes 

 Castle, who on more than one occasion hospitably received the Society 

 therein, and our highly valued and deeply lamented Curator, Mr. 

 Henry Cunnington, to whose unwearied exertions, and those of many 

 members of his family, we are altogether indebted for the excellent 

 condition of our Museum, and who was always most indefatigable 

 in promoting the objects of our Society by every means in his power. 

 This, indeed, is a loss for the Society, the extent of which we have 

 not yet realised, and we feel that for perseverance and energy, com- 

 bined with archseological knowledge and skill, our late Curator was 

 one whom we cannot replace, and all those who have worked with 

 him on the Committee still miss, and shall long continue to miss, 

 the active part he took in the working of the Society. In addition 

 to these original Members we should also specially mention the loss 

 of Mr. Robert Clark, of Devizes, who for more than twenty years 

 was one of the most regular attendants on the Committee; also the 

 Rev. E. L. Barnwell, of Melksham House, who was a very great 

 authority on archaeological subjects, and up to the time of his death 

 and for many years previously was also a Member of our Committee ; 

 and again, Mr. Alfred Seymour, of Knoyle, some time Member for 

 Salisbury, and whose hospitable entertainment of the Society during 

 the Shaftesbury Meeting in 1884 will be in the recollection of all 

 who attended that Meeting. We would also mention with regret 

 the loss of Mr. S. B. Merriman, of London ; Sir William Guise, of 

 Elmore Court, Gloucester ; and Mrs. Whinfield, of Woodleigh, 

 Bradford-on- Avon . 



