280 The Forty-Eighth General Meeting. 



" 8. The Rev. J. Silvester Davies has been steadily working at 

 the transcription of the Tropenell Cartulary placed at the disposal 

 of the Society by the present owner, Mr. W. Heward Bell, and he 

 now reports that more than one-third of his laborious work is done. 

 In the even more laborious work of the copying of churchyard 

 inscriptions Mr. T. H. Baker continues unweariedly in South Wilts, 

 and the Eev. E. Dorling has promised to do the heraldry of at least 

 a portion of the Churches in that part of the county. The Eev. 

 Gr. P. Toppin continues his aid in transcribing Mr. Baker's MS. 



" 9. A barrow atErlestoke,onwhich a note appears in the3fagazine 

 just issued, was opened under Mr. B.H.Cunnington's superintendence. 



" 10. During the restoration of Lydiard Tregoze Church by Mr. 

 C. E. Pouting a series of interesting frescoes were discovered, of 

 which it is hoped that an account may appear in a future niimber 

 of the Magazine. 



"11. THE MUSEUM AND LIBKARY. The most important step 

 taken by the Society during the past year has been the purchase 

 of the house and garden adjoining the County Museum at Devizes. 

 This will enable the Society to extend the buildings and obtain 

 space for exhibiting much that it is now difficult to display. It is 

 not proposed to incur any further cost this year, but it is to be 

 hoped that the result of a special appeal to the coimty next year 

 on the occasion of the Jubilee Meeting will be a sufficient building 

 fund to warrant a commencement of the contemplated alterations 

 and additions. Thanks are due to the vendors for granting a con- 

 veyance of the property free of costs and charges. 



"12. The most notable gift to the Museum has been the 

 considerable collection of flint implements from Knowle Farm, 

 Savernake Forest, presented by Mr. S. B. Dixon, of Pewsey, into 

 whose most careful hands a large quantity of the flints found have 

 happily passed. This find has been the most remarkable arch^o- 

 logical discovery made in the county for many years. Great 

 interest amongst all students of these implements has been aroused 

 by the peculiar condition of these flints — which in some respects, 

 such as the polish seen on some of them — is most remarkable and 

 has not been satisfactorily accounted for. 



