136 The Thirtieth General Meeting. 



which was seconded by the Rev. W. P. S. Bingham, and carried 

 unanimously. 



The re-election of the various officers of the Society was then 

 proposed from the chair, and the General and Local Secretaries, the 

 Curators, the Committee, the Treasurer, and the Auditors, were re- 

 appointed. 



The Rev. A. C. Smith proposed that the name of the Rev. H. 

 A. Olivier be added to the list of Vice-Presidents : that gentleman 

 had done excellent work for the Society as one of the Curators of 

 the Museum, but had now left the county ; he would, however, 

 occasionally attend their meetings, and it was the wish of the 

 Committee that his services should be recognized by the compliment 

 of placing him among the Vice-Presidents. Mr. Smith also moved 

 that Mr. A. B. Fisher, of Potterne, near Devizes, be formally 

 elected Curator in the place of Mr. Olivier : Mr. Fisher had been 

 occupying the post of one of the Curators since Mr. Olivier resigned, 

 nearly a year ago; and it was fitting that, according to the rules, 

 the Meeting should now confirm the provisional appointment by the 

 Committee. Both these propositions were acceded to, and The 

 President then gave his 



ADDRESS. 



Having expressed regret that General Pitt- Rivers had not been 

 prevailed upon to occupy the chair, The President passed on to 

 remark that he should like to take the opportunity of drawing their 

 attention to the circumstances under which their annual meeting 

 took place, and ask them to consider whether their present custom 

 of meeting every year at some new centre of archaeological interest 

 might not with advantage be revised. Their Society had published 

 annual volumes, many of which were so rich in archaeological and 

 other material as to give them a place of no small importance in 

 the literature of the subjects on which they treated. Topographical 

 descriptions, including architectural detail, and the results of archae- 

 ological research in archives and documents, abounded in the pages 

 of their journal, and constituted it a sort of quarry from which any 

 historian of Wiltshire might dig material for the building up of any 



