184 The Fifty -fourth General Meeting. 



churchwardens' accounts of Mere, and to Dr. J. B. Maurice for help 

 towards the cost of the plates illustrating the account of the re- 

 markable Imrrow excavated on his property at Manton by Mr. 

 B. H. Cunnington and described by Mrs. Cunnington. 



" The Tropenell Cartulary. — The transcriber and editor, the 

 Rev. J. Silvester Davies, F.S.A., reports that the whole of the text of 

 work in two vols, is now in print. The introduction, the analytical 

 table of contents, and the index have still to be finished and 

 printed, but it is hoped that the work may be issued to subscribers 

 well within the next six months. 



" The ' Grey Wethers.' — As a consequence of the change of 

 ownership on the sale of the Meux estates in the neighbourhood 

 of Marlborough, a probal)ility arose of the destruction on a large 

 scale, for commercial purposes, of the sarsen stones lying in such 

 numbers on the downs in that locality, and more especially of 

 those adjacent to high roads, such as the well-known " Grey 

 Wethers " in Piggle Dean, on the Bath Road, and the very large 

 masses in Lockeridge Dean. The Committee having appointed a 

 sub-committee to devise measures, if possible, for the preservation 

 of these two sites, the owner, Mr. Alec Taylor, met them in a very 

 friendly spirit, and has made a definite offer of some twenty acres 

 on these sites for £500. Our Society has obtained in this matter 

 the cordial co-operation of the National Trust and of the Marl- 

 borough College Natural History Society, and a joint appeal is 

 now being issued by the three Societies with a first list of promises 

 of subscriptions already received. The Committee commend this 

 effort to preserve intact at least some portion of these remarkable 

 assemblages of Sarsen stones to all who are interested in the County 

 of Wilts. The two sites, if purchased, will be vested in the National 

 Trust. 



The Committee have great pleasure in acknowledging the con- 

 tinuous efforts of Mr. Goddard and the other Officers to advance 

 the interests of the Society. 



" Annual Meeting. — As has been said above, the Annual Meeting 

 at Wilton, in 1906, was from many points of view one of the most 

 successful of recent years, and from the enthusiastic way in 



