The Thirty -Fifth General Meeting. 



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Report, observed that it was, on the whole, very satisfactory. They 

 lamented, indeed, the loss of many Members (some of whom had 

 been of the greatest use to them ever since the commencement o£ 

 the Society), especially Mr. Henry Cunnington, but they were glad 

 to hear that, although the Society had already existed for a period 

 of more than thirty -five years, it had not lost its energy and vivacity. 

 New Members were joining, and the funds were sufficient to give 

 promise of useful work in the future. The publications of the Society 

 continued to be of the greatest interest, and they welcomed this year 

 the publication by Mr. Preston upon the flowering plants o£ Wilt- 

 shire. They were sorry, perhaps, that it had not been found possible 

 to continue the same number of Magazines as on former occasions, 

 because they were always so full of interest. However, when Mr. 

 Preston's book appeared, he had no doubt they would be satisfied 

 with their loss in respect to the Magazines. Mr. Heward Bell 

 seconded the motion, and the report was adopted. 



The Ven. Archdeacon Buchanan moved the re-election of the 

 Officers of the Society, to whom, he said, they were greatly in- 

 debted for the way in which they managed the affairs of the Society. 

 This Society held a place, amongst other Societies of the same 

 sort, of the most honourable character. As they had heard, the 

 funds were in as good a position as they could expect in these days 

 of depression ; and the publications had been of the utmost value. 

 As one who was not himself an Officer of the Society he had the 

 greatest pleasure in proposing that those gentlemen who had been 

 Officers in the past be re-elected, with such additions as would be 

 notified. The .Rev. Canon Jackson seconded the motion, which 

 was agreed tot 



The Rev. A. C. Smith announced that the Committee had ap- 

 pointed Mr. Heward Bell as Librarian of the Society. Their books 

 had, he said, greatly increased in number, and having begun to get 

 a little in confusion they found it necessary to appoint a Librarian. 

 They found an excellent one in Mr. Bell, who had already set to 

 work upon the books, and made a catalogue of them. 



Mr. Medlicott moved that Mr. B. Howard Cunnington be one 

 of the Curators of the Museum, in place of his late father. He had 



