242 The Thirty -Seventh Annual Meeting, 



The resolution having been carried with acclamation, Mr. Smith 

 said he hardly knew how to thank the Society for the resolution 

 they had just adopted. He had received many kindnesses from the 

 Society in times past — for instance, when his book was burnt in 

 the fire in Paternoster Row, the Society most generously undertook 

 the cost of a second edition, and when his daughter was married a 

 very handsome present was given her in recognition — as they were 

 pleased to say — of his services to them as Secretary. His work as 

 Secretary had always been a great pleasure to him, but he felt that 

 it was time to resign it into younger hands now. It was sometimes 

 desirable to have an infusion of fresh blood. Moreover, he felt that 

 lie could not have given up his office at a better time, for the Society 

 was never more flourishing than it was at the present time. 



Resolutions were then carried that the names of the Right Rev. 

 the Lord Bishop of Salisbury and the Rev. A. C. Smith be added 

 to the list of Vice-Presidents of the Society, and that the Rev. 

 E. H. Goddard be appointed one of the General Secretaries and 

 Editor of the Magazine in the room of Mr. Smith. 



The President then read the first part of his inaugural address, 

 on his excavation of the Romano-British villages at Rotherley and 

 Woodcuts, and at Bokerly Dyke, in the extreme south of the county, 

 illustrating his paper by references to the numerous diagrams ex- 

 hibited on the walls. It is needless to say that this paper was o£ 

 very great interest and value, but as it will appear in full at a 

 later page of this Magazine further mention of it here is un- 

 necessary. 



The Rev. W. C. Plenderleath said that there was one matter 

 which he had had occasion to bring before the notice of the Council 

 o£ the Society, and which their Secretaries thought would most 

 fittingly be mentioned at that Meeting. Ten years ago, when the 

 British Archaeological Association held a Meeting in Devizes, in 

 conjunction with that of their own Society, a curious mistake had 

 been made by two speakers with regard to the builder of Devizes 

 Castle, His attention had chanced to be called to this last year 

 when he was employed upon the index to their Magazine ; and he 

 thought that, as one of the main objects of the Society was the 



