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The Forty-Eighth General Meeting. 



more Members may be added Among those whose loss by death 

 we haye to deplore we may specially allude to Mr. Horatio Nelson 

 I i • " Ida rd, who was an original Member of the Society, and of whom 

 an obituary notice may be found in No. XCIV. of the Magazine] 

 the Rev. Gr. S. Master, who has attended our Meetings and con- 

 tributed to tbc pages of the .1/"//" :///'■ ; and Sir Algernon Xeeld. Bart., 

 who most considerately and cordially invited us to Grittleton last, 

 year, in spite of his being unable to receive us himself at the time. 



"Since our last Meeting, Nos. XCIV. and XCV. of the Magazine 

 have been issued, and it is hoped that they may be regarded as 

 maintaining the high reputation of the Society's work. The Index 

 of the Wilts Inquisitions Post Mortem issued with the last number 

 completes the volume relating to the reign of Charles I. For 

 the compilation of this Index the Society is indebted to Mr. A. 

 Schomberg and Mr. E. Kite. It is proposed to issue, in conjunction 

 with the British Record Society, a further series of these valuable 

 records of an earlier date. 



" The work of copying the monumen tal inscriptions in the Churches 

 and churchyards of the county has been most vigorously carried on 

 in South Wilts during the past year by Mr. T. H. Baker, and those 

 of the Wilton Deanery are now practically completed. The Rev. 

 Or. P. Toppin has again rendered valuable aid in transcription, 



" It is proposed that these should be printed by subscription as 

 the first volume of the future series. A prospectus will shortly he 

 issued, and it is hoped that a sufficient number of subscribers will 

 be forthcoming to justify the Society undertaking the work. 



" Preliminary steps have been taken towards making a collection 

 of the eggs of Wiltshire birds worthy of the Society. An appeal 

 has also been made on the cover of the M<t;/<fJ/ic for the gifts of 

 specimens of Wiltshire birds' eggs, which has already met with 

 some response. The formation of a Field Club at Devizes, more 

 especially for the study of natural history, which will have its 

 headquarters at the Museum, will, it may he hoped, result in more 

 attention being paid to the entomology of the district than has 

 hitherto been the case, and in the formation of an entomological 

 Collection Of Wiltshire .specimens for the Museum, which at present 



