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of the Museum, and the rest of the house will serve for the 

 dwelling of the caretaker. The rent of this part of the house is 

 estimated at 5s. per week, which will be carried to the Museum 

 Enlargement Fund. The remuneration actually paid out of pocket 

 to the caretaker is less by that amount. 



" The work of labelling and cataloguing the collections of an- 

 tiquities has been steadily carried on by the Curator and Mrs. 

 Cunnington, together with the even more important work of at- 

 taching to each specimen a registered number by which it can 

 always be identified, even if it should become displaced or its label 

 lost. The Society's archaeological collections are thus being rapidly 

 brought into the best possible order. Our chief need now is to 

 find a geologist, who would do for our really valuable geological 

 collections what is being done for the archeeological. 



" The Collection of Le-pidoptera. During the last year a second 

 cabinet has been purchased, which will afford room for the ex^ 

 pansion of the collection. The number of Wiltshire species 

 represented at the beginning of the season. was two hundred, the 

 majority of which have been collected in the Devizes neighbour- 

 hood during the last two years by members of the Ddvizes Field 

 Club. As in other matters, the aim of the Society is to form a 

 purely Wiltshire collection, and Mr. E. Cook, of Walden Lodge, 

 Devizes, under whose care the foundations of such a collection 

 have been laid, would be very glad to hear from collectors in other 

 parts of the county who may be able and willing to supplement 

 the Society's collection with specimens from other districts, so 

 that in time a really representative county collection may be 

 formed, 



" The Library. — A considerable number of books, pamphlets, &c., 

 have been received during the year from thirty separate donors, 

 and in addition to these some seventy volumes of books by 

 Wiltshire authors and a number of pamphlets which formed part 

 of the library collected by the Eev. E. Duke, at Lake House, early 

 in the 19th century, were purchased for a small sum by the Society, 

 when the library, which had remained at the house when it passed 

 into the hands of Mr. Lovibond, was sold at Salisbury on March 



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