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received under this head consisted of arrears of unpaid subscriptions. 
The amount received from admissions to the Museum shows a con- 
siderable increase owing to the reduced price charged for entrance, 
viz., 3d. The general balance shows an increase as compared with 
the previous year. There is still outstanding about £70 of sub- 
scriptions and arrears, due lst January last. 
“The Committee have had this under consideration, and they 
would urge upon Members that if they would give a standing order 
to their bankers to pay their subscriptions when due, viz., lst 
January in each year, that much trouble would be saved to the 
officers of the Society and to themselves. The Financial Secretary 
would supply a form for this purpose at any time on application. 
“The concluding number of volume xxiv. of the Magazine was 
issued last spring, and with it concluded the labours of Mr. Smith 
as Editor. All will concur in the opinion that his work has beer 
crowned with success to the last. With volume xxiv. is issued a 
general index to the last eight volumes, for which the Society is 
indebted to the laborious and painstaking efforts of a valued Member 
of the Committee, the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath. The first number 
of vol. xxv. was issued quite recently, and it is hoped that it has 
reacted the hands of every Member whose subscription has been 
paid up to 30th June. 
“A list of donations to the Library and Museum is published 
with each number of the Magazine. The thanks of the Society are 
due to all those who wisely consider that books relating to county 
history, whether past or contemporary, and objects of interest of all 
kinds which throw light on the study of the county are best placed 
in the Library or Museum of the Society. At the same time the 
energies of the Curators are sometimes severely taxed in the en- 
deavour adequately to display to view the many treasures which are 
offered to the Society, and it must be remembered if we are sometimes 
_ forced to decline donations that the space available is so circumscribed 
that it becomes increasingly necessary to confine ourselves to books 
and objects referring directly to the history of our own county. 
“It is hoped that many Members of the Society will take the 
opportunity which our visit to Devizes affords of inspecting the 
