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The Forty-Sixth General Meeting. 



satisfactory condition of affairs. The serious loss of Members 

 referred to below will, however, affect the accounts another year. 



" Numbers 90 and 91 of the Magazine have been issued at the 

 regular interval, and with them a Catalogue of the Drawings, 

 Prints, and Maps in the Library, and Part VI. of the Wiltshire 

 Inquisitions of Charles I. 



"It is hoped that the present series of Inquisitions, which has 

 been issued to Members in parts for some years past, will be con- 

 cluded this year, after which it is proposed to publish an earlier 

 series. 



" During the year we have lost seventeen Members by death and 

 seventeen by resignation, whilst fifteen new Members only have 

 joined us, leaving our number three hundred and fifty-one, as 

 against three hundred and seventy last year. We feel sure that 

 the value and use of the Society is not considered to be any less 

 than it has been in the past, either in the county or out of it, and 

 that it only requires greater activity on the part of the Honorary 

 Local Secretaries and the friends of the Society generally to bring 

 up the numbers to the former level. Of the Members whose los6 

 by death we have to deplore, first and foremost must we mention 

 the Eev. Alfred Charles Smith, an original Member of the 

 Society, for many years an indefatigable Hon. Secretary and of 

 recent years a Yioe-president. An obituary notice of him appears 

 in the last number of the Magazine. We may mention also the 

 Eev. W. H. Awdry, Mr. A. L. Goddard, and Mr. W. W. Eavenhill 

 as old friends of long standing and valued Members, and Sir E. 

 Antrobus, Bart., one of our Trustees. 



" At the Museum some cases, which had been placed there by 

 Mr. William Cunnington many years ago, and which the Society 

 had used during that time gratuitously, have been purchased from 

 him. Other additions have been made and acknowledged in the 

 Magazine. 



" A considerable number of Wiltshire books have been added to 

 the Library. The note as to ' Wiltshire books wanted ' on the 

 cover of the Magazine has received kind attention from several 

 friends. We are indebted to Mr. F. M. Willis for a valuable 



