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some of those who have more recently joined us, and taken part in 
our proceedings, as the Rev. Edward Luard of Winterslow, and 
others. 
“With regard to finance, your Committee is able to report satis- 
factorily, the funds now in hand showing an increase on last 
year. 
“ With reference to our publications during the past twelvemonths : 
although but one number of the Magazine has been issued, another 
(being the thirty-sixth number, and concluding the twelfth volume) 
is far advanced towards completion, and will shortly be in the 
hands of members: while the second part of the account of the 
Blackmore Museum has been published and distributed amongst the 
‘members of our Society, a work to which your Committee confidently 
ealls special attention, as of very great archzological interest and 
merit, and for this the Society is entirely indebted to the pen of 
Mr. Stevens. 
“The Museum and Library of the Society have been increased 
by some few donations, not however to any noteworthy extent: so 
that whilst the Committee heartily thank the donors for their con- 
tributions, they desire again to impress upon the members generally 
how great is the value of specimens when collected and classified in 
a Museum: as contrasted with the comparatively little interest 
which attaches to isolated objects, when retained in private hands; 
which moreover are often laid aside and lost, and whose history is as 
frequently forgotten. | Your Committee therefore would again 
earnestly invite those to whom such specimens are from time to 
time brought, to deposit them, either as a gift or as a loan, in our 
permanent Museum. 
“The Committee desires in conclusion to entreat the continued 
co-operation of its members in all parts of ‘the county. Notwith- 
standing the exertions which this Society has made during eighteen 
years, there is still in Wiltshire a vast amount of Archeological and 
Natural History matter hitherto untouched: and as it is only by 
_ the help and cordial support of its many members that the work of 
the Society can be satisfactorily carried on, your Committee con- 
_ fidently appeals to you for individual research, investigation, and 
