270 The Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting. 
been chiefly collected, and altogether arranged, and to whose inde- 
fatigable exertions it is due that the Flora of the County is thus 
satisfactorily illustrated. 
“The Committee regrets that it cannot speak quite so hopefully 
of the Archzological and Geological Sections: not at all because 
they are ill-represented, but on the contrary, because, owing to want 
of space, it is impossible properly to arrange the specimens already 
in possession, or to make room for others which may be presented 
to the Society ; but it trusts that at no very distant date, additional 
room may be given to these departments. 
“Tn regard to the Magazine, two numbers have been published 
since the last annual meeting, and a third is considerably advanced 
towards completion, and will, it is hoped, shortly be in the hands of 
Members. The Index also to the last eight volumes (Vols. ix. to 
xvi., both inclusive) which was announced in our last Report is 
completed and published, and for this very valuable addition, a work, 
too, of no little labour and painstaking, your Committee desires to 
express the obligations of the Society to the Local Secretary for 
Calne, the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath, Rector of Cherhill. 
“The Committee has within the last twelvemonth devoted much 
attention to the rules of the Society, the formation of the Society’s 
Museum and Library having necessitated the election of Curators, 
a Librarian, and other officers, not provided for in the original rules. 
This seemed to be a good opportunity for revising the rules through- 
out, and fitting them for the more advanced position of the Society ; 
this has been done, in great measure, through the agency of Mr. 
Stevens; and such rules and bye-laws, recommended by the Com- 
mittee, have been approved at a Special General Meeting of the 
Society summoned for the purpose last May, and have since been 
circulated amongst the Members. 
“Tt only remains to thank all who in their several capacities have, 
during the past year, advanced the causes of Archeology and Natural 
History within our county. A vast field of enquiry yet lies before 
us, and it is only by the assistance of many eyes and many hands 
that even a scanty gleaning can be made. Your Committee desires, 
in concluding this Report, gratefully to record its sense of the value 
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