532 The Fifty-Fifth General Meeting. 



5th, 1908. A complete set of the recent Eeports on the Charities 

 of the county, forming three stout volumes, has also been given 

 by the kindness of eight Members of the Society. 



" Local Secretaries. — The Committee have provisionally appointed 

 the following gentlemen as Local Secretaries for the Society, and 

 recommend that their appointment be confirmed by the General 

 Meeting : — Mr. A. W. N. Burder, F.S.A., for Bradford-on-Avon ; 

 Mr. R S. Ferguson, for Calne ; and the Eev. J. A. Lloyd, F.S.A., 

 for Mere. They further recommend that Mrs. B, H. Cunnington 

 be appointed a member of the General Committee, and that the 

 Bishop of Bristol be asked to become one of the Vice-Presidents 

 of the Society. 



"Mr. N. Story Maskelyne, F.R.S., has been re-appointed the 

 Society's representative on the Town Trust of Wootton Bassett. 



" The Tropenell Cartulary. The two volumes of this book, proba- 

 bly the most important work from a genealogical and topographical 

 point of view published by the Society since Jackson's ' Aubrey ' 

 was printed in 1862; were issued to subscribers in the early part 

 of this year. The entire cost of publishing has been paid and the 

 Society has in hand a small balance of cash and forty copies of 

 the work for sale at the price of £1 10s. to Members and £2 to 

 the public. This eminently satisfactory result is due to the very 

 generous financial support accorded by many Members of the 

 Society, and especial thanks are due to the transcriber and editor, 

 the Rev. J. Silvester Davies, for his long and onerous work, and 

 to Mr. C. T. Flower, of the Record Office, for his help in verifying 

 the text. 



" The Grey Wethers Ftmd. The joint appeal issued last year by 

 our Society in connexion with the ^National Trust and the Marl- 

 borough College Natural History Society, for a fund to purchase 

 two areas covered by the Sarsen Stones, known as the ' Grey 

 Wethers,' in Piggle Dene and Lockeridge Dene, near Marlborough, 

 has been so generously responded to, largely by subscribers con- 

 nected with the county, that it has been found possible somewhat 

 to extend the proposed area in Lockeridge Dene, and the purchase 

 of both sites from Mr. Alec Taylor has been arranged. The land 



