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Inquisitiones Post Mortem beginning with the reign of Henry III. 

 has been issued with it. 



" 5. The Editor of the Magazine has, as in former years, received 

 important help from Mr. G. E. Dartnell in the shape of notes on 

 articles and illustrations in ])apers and magazines bearing on 

 Wiltshire matters for the lists of Wiltshire Books, Articles, etc., 

 published in the Magazine. It would be of great assistance if 

 Members in other parts of the county would call his attention to 

 any locally published pamphlets, illustrations, or books, many of 

 which, without such help nmst necessarily escape notice. 



" 6. The past year has been a notable one in the county from an 

 archa3ological point of view. Prominent, of course, amongst other 

 work has been the excavation around the great leaning stone at 

 Stonehenge, and the re-erection of it in its original upright position. 

 There can be no doubt that this will go far to save it from gradual 

 decay and destruction. The result of the excavations so skilfully 

 made by Mr. Gowland, Vice-President of the Society of Antiquaries, 

 and of the very important astronomical observations made by Sir 

 Norman Lockyer and Mr. Penrose have gone a long way towards 

 setting at rest the speculations of earlier days as to the date of the 

 great stone monument. Our Society has every reason to con- 

 gratulate Sir Edmund Antrobus on the success of his efibrts to 

 preserve the stones on the lines suggested by the Joint Advisory 

 Committee. Without effective enclosure it would have been quite 

 impossible for the investigations referred to to have been carried 

 out. The great stones at Avebury also require careful watching. 

 Warnings have been received from time to time that they are not 

 free from risk of injury. 



" 7. The Lewis Tomb at Edington, as to the replacement of which 

 the Society was consulted when they visited the Church last year, 

 has been re-erected against the chancel wall outside the altar rails, 

 as was suggested ; and at Luckington the considerable carved le- 

 mains of the reredos, cast out at a restoration some years ago and 

 since then lying exposed in the vicarage garden, have been, at a 

 small expense to the Society, happily placed under cover again in 

 the Church. 



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