100 The Thirty -third General Meeting, 



Wiltshire shall be worked out in every direction and made known, 

 But that, we make bold to say, is a work which will tax the energies 

 of Wiltshire archaxdogists and Wiltshire zoologists in every branch 

 Of science for many a generation to come, so much is there yet to 

 learn on all those subjects upon which our Society has now, for 

 thirty years, been engaged/'' 



The President, before asking some gentleman to move the 

 adoption of the report, called on them all to endeavour to increase 

 the Society in point of numbers, and he would certainly endorse 

 every word said by their Secretary as to the very great importance 

 of local inquiries. When he said that some of the most important 

 points of what was now called old English, but what they used to 

 call Anglo-Saxon history, depended upon the identification of places, 

 where there were many places of the same name, and that identifi- 

 cation could only be the result of very careful local observation and 

 research, he thought he urged at least one cogent reason for endorsing 

 what their Secretary had said. And it is in the power of almost 

 anyone who has leisure and an enquiring spirit to make some addition 

 to the records that give interest to a neighbourhood, whether it be 

 by hunting up and collecting facts regarding the past or putting on 

 record what is interesting among their contemporaries. He might 

 mention as a matter of some interest to the Swindon neighbourhood, 

 that in the last year an interesting collection of facts, and gossip, 

 and old records in connection with Swindon and its district, had been 

 published there by Mr. William Morris, editor of the Swindon 

 Advertiser. He was sure anyone who would take that work up 

 would find how much could be done by one who would collect the facts 

 around him within his own memory and the memory of his friends. 



The Rev. E. Awdry briefly proposed, and the Rev. H. K. 

 Anketell seconded, the adoption of the report, and after a few 

 remarks from Mr. W. Cunnington as to the falling-off of Members, 

 it was agreed to. 



The President then proposed the re-election of the Secretaries 

 (the Rev. A. C. Smith, and Mr. H. E. Medlicott), the Curators of the 

 Museum, the Local Secretaries, and the Committee, and he also pro- 

 posed the name of Mr. C. E. H. A. Colston as Treasurer to the Society. 



