138 The Fifty -second General Meeting. 



Society by the Local Treasurer of £25. The best thanks of the 

 Society are due to those who so ably organised this meeting, and 

 for the handsome contribution to our funds. We have also had 

 returned to us £11 9s. M. on account of income tax, &c., and to 

 those two items is mainly due the improved financial position. 



Members. — The number of Members on the books at the present 

 time (June, 1905) is four hundred and one, showing an increase of 

 nine over the numbers of last year. This number — four hundred 

 and one — includes those Societies and Institutions termed " ex- 

 change " Members. 



" Library (ind Museum. — We have to express our best thanks to 

 Sir Edmund Antrobus for a bound copy of the pleadings, shorthand 

 notes of evidence, and the judgment in the recent action concerning 

 the alleged rights at Stonehenge, and for fourteen large photographs 

 taken for the purposes of the litigation ; and to Messrs. T and C. 

 Awdry for a latge consignment of deeds and papers, chiefly con- 

 nected with the taxation of the county in the early years of the 

 nineteenth century. We have also, as usual, to thank a number 

 of other donors for gifts of recent literature in connection with 

 the county. The urgent question of additional space lias been 

 partially solved by the incorporation in the Museum of a good new 

 room, formed out of the two front flrst-floor rooms in the adjoining 

 house (the Society's property), and connected with the existing 

 Ijuildings by a fireproof door. This at least gives breathing space 

 for a time, and the work of making use of it to the best advantage 

 is now being taken in hand. The pressing need of new cases, etc., 

 both for the Museum and Library, has induced the Committee to make 

 an ehbrt to set on foot a permanent " maintenance fund," which 

 shall be availal)le for this and similar purposes, the expense of 

 wliich lias hitlierto pressed unduly on the general fund of the 

 Society. The Committee would draw the attention of Members 

 and of all who are interested in the preservation of the antiquities of 

 Wilts to the appeal and statement which appear on the cover of the 

 Magazine just issued. Up to the present nearly forty Members 

 liave promised annual subscriptions to the fund to the amount of 

 £29, in addition to about £33 contributed as donations. If we 



