240 The Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting. 
valuable collections which the Museum now contains, for the classi- 
fication and re-arrangement of which from time to time the Society 
is deeply indebted to Mr. B. H. Cunnington, one of the Hon. 
Curators, and members of his family, who take a very active interest 
and natural pride in this very important centre of Wiltshire arche- 
ology and natural history. 
“The Committee has again to refer to the very important work 
which is being carried on in the county by the President, General 
Pitt-Rivers—work which is gradually elucidating a period of history 
hitherto veiled in mystery, and work which can be carried on in no 
part of the country with a better chance of success than in our own 
county. The Society cannot but be most grateful to General Pitt- 
Rivers for the costly and painstaking work he has so generously 
taken in hand, and we hope the Wansdyke may yet yield results as 
conclusive as those arrived at in the south of the county. 
“The Society desires to urge upon all owners of property in the 
county upon which archzological remains exist the great importance 
of most carefully preserving such antiquities, and whilst we have as 
our President “ Her Majesty’s Inspector General of Ancient Monu- 
ments in Great Britain,” we feel it our duty to make an especial 
appeal to all who have it in their power to entrust to his care 
treasures, the full historical and national value of which is some- 
times but little appreciated or understood. No greater venerator of 
antiquity exists than General Pitt-Rivers, and even in cases where 
an object cannot be made, technically speaking, an ‘ ancient monu- 
ment,” his advice as to its preservation will be given, and may with 
confidence be acted upon. 
“Whilst congratulating the Society on the past, and expressing 
an earnest hope and desire that it may flourish in the future in spite 
of changes, your Committee appeals earnestly to the Members of 
the Society in all parts of the county for their active co-operation. 
We appeal to the Local Secretaries, and to any individual Members 
who will take the trouble, to help the Society by increasing the 
number of Members, by inducing some to join us who are not 
Members but who show their interest in the general objects of 
our Society by studying and sometimes publishing papers on 
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