The Eleventh Gemral Meeting. 



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" In conclusion, the Committee very earnestly invites help from 

 all portions of the county in the researches and investigations it 

 desires to pursue, assured that while very much remains to be done 

 in the way of exploring what is hidden, unravelling what is com- 

 plicated and tangled, clearing away popular errors, and promoting 

 generally a more accurate knowledge of the history of our county, 

 as well as the works of creation with which we are surrounded, 

 this can only be effectually done by the help of many : help which 

 the Committee trusts will not be withheld by those whose occupa- 

 tions, pursuits, or tastes, enable them to give assistance. " 



Mr. Cunnington begged to add one gratifying sentence to the 

 Report : it was to the effect that the Society had a balance in their 

 I banker's hands, at that moment, of £135. 



The Chairman then put the motion to the meeting that the 

 : Report be approved and printed; which was agreed to unanimously. 



The various officers of the Society were then elected : Sir John 

 Wither A wdry as President for the three years ensuing. F. A. S. 

 Locke, Esq., as Treasurer. There were also re-elected the General 

 Secretaries, Rev. A. C. Smith and Mr. Cunnington : the Local 

 Secretaries with the additions of Rev. "W". C. Plenderleath for 

 Calne, and Mr. E. T. Stevens for Salisbury : and the Council. 



The noble President then addressed the meeting as follows : — 

 Ladies and Gentlemen, — This is the third and last year of my 

 , presidency, and although one year of it has been passed without 

 our usual annual gathering, the pleasing recollections of our 

 meeting at Devizes are still fresh in my memory, and made me anxious 

 to call you together once more before I resign my temporary office. 

 It may be difficult to find objects of interest that have not been 

 previously visited sufficient to keep up our annual gatherings, but 

 I am convinced that a great deal of the interest manifested in our 

 Society would cease if our meetings were less frequent than alternate 

 years. It was this conviction which induced me to press for our 

 meeting this year, although the important meeting of the Archaeo- 

 logical Institute last month in a neighbouring county, and in our 

 very diocese, would have afforded a better excuse for a second post- 

 ponement than the Social Science meeting at Bath afforded us last 



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