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month in which we lost Mr. Estcourt) died Mr. Poulett Scrope, the 
first president of this Society, to whose diligence and zeal in the 
cause our Society stands in great degree indebted for the position it 
very early occupied in the county; and to whose kindly support and 
unceasing interest in its welfare the Society owes a great deal of its 
present firmly-rooted condition. A memoir of Mr. Scerope will also, 
it is hoped, appear in the next Magazine. In addition to the loss 
of these two early presidents of the Society, we have to lament that 
of several other members who have been subscribers and supporters 
of the Society from its foundation ; among whom we would mention 
Mr. Howse, of St. Paul’s Churchyard, London ; Mr. Seymour, of 
Crowood, Ramsbury; and more recently the Earl of Suffolk and 
Mr. Tugwell, of Devizes, at whose house the Society has, on more 
than one occasion, visited the fine collection of British birds (most 
of them Wiltshire specimens) made by the late Mr. Warriner, of 
Conock. Although, however, the number of Members who have 
passed away since last year is considerable, your Committee is happy 
to add that there has been more than an equal number of admissions 
to fill up the vacancies. The number of members now on the books, 
which at the last general meeting was stated to be 340, now amounts 
to 355. . 
« Financially, the Society stands much as it did last year. While 
expending in the prosecution of its objects the whole of its income, 
it has still a small balance in hand as heretofore, but with the details 
we need not now trouble you; they will appear in the balance sheet 
in the next number of the Magazine. 
“ And now we come to the Magazine, of which three numbers 
have been issued since last autumn; viz., an ordinary number in 
December and a double number a month ago, which last contains a 
full account of Stonehenge and its barrows, the very able work of 
Mr. William Long, to whom the Committee here desires to express 
its very warmest thanks, and its sense of the great benefits he has 
conferred on the Society. For many years past the Committee has 
felt that it ought to put forth a treatise on Stonehenge which should 
collect and embody and record all that was known of that world- 
renowned monument; and for a long period overtures have been 
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