2 The Eleventh General Meeting. 
The President then called upon the Rey. A. C. Smrru, one of the 
General Secretaries, to read the Report. 
; REPORT FOR 1865. 
“The Committee of the Wiltshire Archeological and Natural 
History Society has again the satisfaction of recording, on this, 
the 12th anniversary of its formation, the continued prosperity of 
the Society. At the same time, it has to lament the loss of an 
unusual number of former members by death, withdrawal, or 
removal from the county: a loss, however, which it trusts is coun- 
ter-balanced by the enrolment of a long list of new names amongst 
its supporters. The number of names now on the books of the 
Society, amounts to 350. 
“With regard to finance: A balance sheet, comprising the 
accounts of several years past, has so recently been circulated 
amongst the members of the Society, that it need only be remarked 
that while its income is sufficient to cover the annual expenditure, 
it ig not in a condition, financially, to incur any extraordinary 
expense in the way of exploration, restoration, or otherwise, as it is 
frequently invited to do. 
“* With reference to the work of the past year, two more numbers 
of the Magazine have been issued, of whose merits the Committee 
must leave the members of the Society to judge. Here, how- 
ever, they desire to explain that the delay which occurred in the 
issue of the last number was occasioned by the loss of their pub- 
lisher and printer, Mr. Bull, who had, from the first, with great 
satisfaction to the Editors, conducted the Magazine through the 
press, and whose son now occupies his father’s place. 
“The Library and Museum have been enriched with many do- 
nations, several of which are of considerable value as illustrating 
the typography, antiquities, and natural history of the county. 
‘‘For these, the Committee desires cordially to thank all the 
contributors, and at the same time to urge on Wiltshire generally 
the importance of preserving, in some central Museum, such as the 
very excellent one at Salisbury, for South Wilts, and that of the 
Society at Devizes, objects, of little value indeed when scattered 
and in private hands, but of the highest interest when collected 
and classified for purposes of observation and study. 
