140 The Fiftii-seco')ul General Meeting. 



" The Magazine. — With the completion of vol. xxxiii. of the 

 Magazine a new departure has been taken in the matter of the 

 index. Hitherto indices have appeared only when a series of 

 eight volumes had been completed, and the consequence has been 

 that for about twelve years the recent numbers have been almost 

 unavailable for reference. With the last number of this volume, 

 however, an index has been given, which is far fuller and more 

 complete than any of those which have preceded it. For the very 

 onerous work of its compilation the Society is indebted to Miss 

 Story Maskelyne, of Hatt House, who spared neither time nor 

 trouble to make it a model of what an index should be. It is 

 proposed in future to make the volumes of the Magazine somewhat 

 thicker than tliey have been, by including between four hundred 

 and five hundred pages in each, and to give a complete index in 

 this way at the end of each volume, thus rendering them more 

 available for reference at once. We have to thank Mr. John A. 

 Watson-Taylor for the cost of the map illustrating his paper in 

 our last number. 



"E. H. GODDARD, ") rr a >j 



"E. O. P. BouvERiE, i^on.becs. 



Tlie adoption of the Report was moved by MR. W. HEWAED BELL 

 and seconded l)y the REV. MILLS ROBBINS, who advocated ap- 

 parently the dispersal of the objects now preserved in the 

 Society's Museum, among the localities to whicli they belong. 

 THE REV. E. H. GODDARD replied that so far as duplicates of 

 prints, &c., were concerned, the Society was quite willing to part 

 with them, but that in the case of unique and original olijects it 

 would be frustrating the whole object of the Museum to part with 

 them when once they liad been entrusted to the Society's keeping. 

 MR. CECIL SIMPSON, s])eaking to the point raised by Mr. Robbins, 

 strongly urged the desirability of coneent rating antiquities and 

 material for the history of the county in the two established 

 museums at Devizes and Salisbury, where they would be com- 

 paratively safe and easily available, rather than— as Mr. Robbins 

 seemed to suggest — scattering them all over the county ; and he 

 suggested that inventories of all deeds, &c., possessed by town 



