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" They represent a good many years of my life — I have worked hard 

 in my time " ; and then, as he spoke of his increasing* weakness, he 

 said, " I should like to have had another ten years of life, I think I 

 could have finished a good many things then." He had worked to 

 the last, and when the end came he passed away honoured and 

 beloved by all who knew him, not merely for his knowledge and his 

 learning, but for the genuine goodness of his heart and the singular 

 charm of his private character, — the genial kindness and quaint 

 humour which made him no less delightful as a companion in private 

 life than he was as a lecturer upon the public platform. By his 

 personal friends — and perhaps few men could number friends in so 

 many and diverse ranks and conditions of life as he could, — by his 

 neighbours, even by those who knew him only from his appearance 

 at our Annual Meetings, he was alike spoken of as " the dear old 

 Canon." He was, indeed, one of the few of whom it may truly be 

 said that it was a privilege to have known him, as he is one of the 

 few, too, who will leave an enduring name behind him in the 

 antiquarian world — a name that will rank for the future with the 

 goodly company of "Wiltshire antiquaries, with Aubrey and Hoare 

 Philips and Britton, if it does not in the opinion of posterity rank 

 first among them all as that of the man who has done most for the 

 unravelling of Wiltshire history. 



E. H. G. 



By the Kev. A. C. Smith. 



}T the end of January, 1891, twenty years bad elapsed since 

 the latest visit of the Great Bustard to Wiltshire, and 

 not ~a straggler to its old haunts in this county had been seen since 

 the memorable incursion of these birds to the British Isles of 1871, 



