4 The Ninth General Meeting. 



Smith), bids fair to produce such a mass of valuable information, 

 and such reliable statistics of every parish, as will largely conduce 

 to the end proposed. 



" With regard to the state of our finances, your Committee has 

 every reason to express satisfaction. The accounts were carefully 

 prepared and audited at the close of last year, and though an 

 extraordinary outlay has been incurred in the publication of the 

 " Collections for Wiltshire, by Aubrey and Jackson," yet from the 

 rapid sale of the book, your Committee has a confident expectation 

 that the Society will not be a loser in a pecuniary point of view, 

 while in credit it has been immeasurably the gainer. 



" It remains only to make mention of the Museum and Library, 

 which are receiving continual additions in various departments ; 

 and to thank the kind friends who have contributed to our stores. 

 Among these, we must more especially name the Rev. W. C. Lukis, 

 who has deposited in our Museum, among sundry urns and much 

 pottery (the spoil of the many barrows he has of late years opened 

 in Wiltshire), several bone implements of exceeding rarity and 

 value ; one of which, a bone hammer, has been pronounced by the 

 authorities in the department of antiquities in the British Museum, 

 to be altogether unique. 



"To the liberality of William Long, Esq., of Bath, we are indebted 

 for two more plates, illustrating his valuable paper on Avebury in 

 the 4th volume of the Magazine ; and to many other benefactors 

 our best thanks are due." 



The Report having been unanimously adopted, and the officers 

 re-appointed for the ensuing year, 



Mr. E. A. Freeman then proceeded to give an Address on 

 Malmesbury Abbey. His views upon the subject having been 

 already published in the " Ecclesiologist," June 1852, our readers 

 will be glad to find that we have his permission to reprint that 

 Paper in the present Number of this Magazine : together with some 

 further observations introduced into his Address at Malmesbury. 



On the motion of the President, seconded by Sir John Awdry, 

 an unanimous vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Freeman for his 

 lecture. 



