182 The Fifty-fourth General Meeting. 



nine of whom were from the Swindon neighbourhood. He then 

 called on the Hon. Secretary, REV. E. H. GODDARD, to read 



THE ANNUAL REPORT PRESENTED JULY, 1907. 



"The Committee Jjegs to present the fifty -fourth annual report 

 of the Society. 



" Members. — The number of Members on the books of the Society 

 oil June 12t]i, 1907, was seventeen Life Members and three hundred 

 and sixty-nine Annual Subscribers, with twenty-two Societies and 

 Institutions with whom we exchange publications. We lost by 

 death ten Members during the year, and by resignation twelve. 

 On tlie other hand thirty-four newAnnual Subscribers were elected, 

 and two more Societies were added to the exchange list ; our num- 

 bers, therefore, stand at three hundred and eighty-six, as com- 

 pared with three hundred and seventy-five last year, or, if the 

 exchanging Societies be counted, four hundred and eight against 

 three hundred and iiinety-five. The Wilton Meeting, successful 

 in other ways also, gained us many new Members in the south of 

 the county. Among the losses by death that of Mr. W. F. Morgan 

 deprives the Society of its Local Secretary at Warminster, and of 

 one who did much for us at more than one Warminster Meeting. 



" Finance. — The accounts for the the year 1906 are printed at 

 the end of the June number of the Magazine. The balance in 

 hand on the General Fund on December 31st, 1906, was £44 ls.&\d., 

 as compared with £13 19s. \\d. on December 31st, 1905. This 

 increase is largely to be accounted for by the very handsome sum 

 of £24 9s. 6rZ. handed to the Society by the Local Committee as 

 the balance on the Meeting at Wilton last year. The subscriptions 

 to the Museum Maintenance Fund received in 1906 amounted to 

 £37. The Museum Enlargement Fund had a balance on December 

 31st, 1906, of £130 Os. lid. In reference to this account, however, 

 it should be mentioned that the loan, without interest, of £200 

 from Mr. W. Heward Bell, several years ago, which enabled the 

 Society to purchase the house adjoining the Museum, has not yet 

 been repaid, and is still a charge upon this fund. 



" Museum, — The number of visitors to the Museum during the 

 year was eight hundred and sixty-nine, as against six hundred and 



