THE 



WILTSHIRE MAGAZINE. 



"MULTOETJM MANIBUS GEANDE LEVATTTE ONUS."-— Owi. 



DECEMBER, 18Q7. 



JUjjort of t\t Wxlityxxt %xt\mb$wi attl> 

 j[attttal Pfetotg ^odetg 



Jor tfje gear Ms, 1896 Mg, 1897- 



[JSea^ at the General Meeting at Bradford-on-Avon, July 27th, 1897.] 



(I p?||||HE Committee has to report the following changes in the 

 |i§|j|f list of Members during the year which has elapsed since 

 the last Annual Meeting : — 



" 1. The Society has lost sixteen annual Members and three 

 exchange Members by resignation, one life, and thirteen annual 

 Members by death. Twenty-four new Members have joined us, 

 viz., one life, twenty-two annual, and one exchange. This leaves 

 us at the 30th June last with twenty-one life Members, three 

 hundred and thirty-three annual Members, and nineteen exchange 

 Members — a total of three hundred and seventy-three, a decrease 

 from the numbers last year. 



"2. Amongst those whose loss by death we have had to deplore 

 are : — Mr. T. B. Anstie, an original Member of the Society, and of 

 the Committee ; the Marquess of Bath, a distinguished Member of 

 many years' standing, who more than once welcomed the Society 

 to Longleat ; the Eev. G. E. Cleather, also an original Member, 

 and the donor of some cases of birds, alluded to below ; the Eev. 

 Tupper Carey, who frequently joined our annual gatherings ; and 

 Sir Thomas Fraser Grove, Bart. 



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