The Opening Meeting. 



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the county ; and if they only took the trouble, as he did sometimes, 

 to look over the history of Sir R. Colt Hoare, and considered the 

 additions to the history of the county that had been made by the 

 exertions of their Society, and how vastly more complete that history 

 had been made, they would realize the importance of such an 

 association. 



The Rev. G. Windsor Tucker, Vicar of Malmesbury, in second- 

 ing the motion, said that though he did not know much of the 

 operations of the Society yet he was able on behalf of the inhabitants 

 of the borough of Malmesbury and the neighbourhood generally, to 

 assure a hearty welcome to all the Members of the Wiltshire Archae- 

 ological and Natural History Society. 



The Report haviDg been adopted, Mr. Ravbnhill, proposed that 

 the officers of the Society — General Secretaries, Curators, Local 

 Secretaries, and Committee — be re-elected. They had heard the 

 work which had been done, and when they knew that both their 

 t Secretaries were in such good health that they had been able to 

 work with the spade and the crow-bar as they had done in the past 

 year, and that they were still able to place before the Society the various 

 papers and facts that had to be presented, he was sure they would 

 have no hesitation in saying that these gentlemen ought to be re- 

 elected, with the best thanks of the Society to them for the valuable 

 services they had rendered. 



The Rev. Canon Jones, seconded the resolution, remarking that 

 no doubt their officers would work as well in the future as they had 

 in the past. 



The resolution was carried unanimously. 



The Rev. A. C. Smith said that, as a rider to the last motion, he 

 would propose that two names be added to the list of Vice-Presidents. 

 He was sorry it had not been done before, for he had intended to 

 nominate them last year if it had not slipped his memory : he 

 referred to Canon Jones and Mr. Talbot, both of whom had done 

 good work for the Society for many years. He need not tell them 

 what Canon J ones had done for them, because they had only to look 

 at the Magazine ; and those present at Bradford last year would 

 recollect how he was the very life and soul of the meeting. Then 



