98 The Fiftieth General Meeting. 
even, much less for the proper exhibition, of all the collections we 
possess. Advantage is, therefore, being taken of this—theJubilee — 
Meeting of the Society, in the town where it was cradled, to issue 
a special appeal to the Members of the Society, the general public, 
and all patrons of science and education, to provide funds for 
building additional rooms upon the space recently purchased with 
that view. Plans have been prepared by Mr. Ponting, and will be 
exhibited during this Meeting, showing how in course of time the 
whole of this space may be utilised, but at present it is proposed 
to deal only with one portion of these plans and to erect a building 
which shall comprise a library, to be called the ‘Jackson Memorial 
Library, and a room for the display of antiquities. It is very 
much to be desired that the county may recognise this effort and 
provide the sum asked for. The utility and interest of the Society’s 
Museum and Library may be very greatly increased by the scheme 
being quickly realised. 
“9.—The Society has held five meetings at Devizes, and now 
returns after fifteen years’ interval to hold its fiftieth anniversary 
in this town. There had been a hope that Lord Lansdowne, as Patron 
—hereditary Patron we might almost say—of the Society, would 
have been able to preside at this Meeting, but the exigencies of the 
high post he holds in the Government of the country prevent him 
from attending. Lord Bath, our President now, for the usual term, is 
taking up the duties of his oftice at this Meeting, in succession to the 
Lord Bishop of Bristol, whose efforts in connection with this post 
deserve especial mention. He attended every Meeting and took a 
very active and able part in the work of the Society. The Committee 
recommend that he should be invited to become a Vice-President 
of the Society. My. Medlicott is resigning the post of Hon. General 
Secretary after twenty-two years’ seyyice in that capacity. The 
Committee have more than once endeavoured to induce him to 
reconsider his decision, but in this, they much regret to say, they 
failed. Mr. Medlicott’s wide knowledge of the county, and his long 
experience in all county matters, have been of the greatest value 
to the Society in very many ways, and the position that the Society 
‘occupies to-day in the County of Wilts is in no small measure due 

