2 Report of the Society for the Year 1895-6. 
“The cost of additions made to the Library and Museum of the 
Society is again considerable, but the Committee consider it desirable 
to continue their efforts to make the Library as complete a collection 
of books relating to Wiltshire or written by Wiltshire authors as 
means will allow. Amongst the items purchased during the past 
year are a considerable number of drawings and prints, which will 
add much to the value and completeness of the Society’s collections. 
In this matter the Committee confidently appeal to the whole county, 
for whereas in respect of local antiquities the excellent Salisbury 
and South Wilts Museum naturally competes for their possession 
with the Society’s Museum at Devizes, in the formation of a library 
on the other hand, which shall by degrees become a place of 
reference for all Wiltshire books, pamphlets, drawings, and prints, 
our Society comes into competition with no other institution, and 
therefore looks to the south of the county equally with the north for 
help in the way of gifts of old or new books, original drawings, prints, 
or portraits, in any way whatever connected with Wiltshire. A 
catalogue of the collection of prints and drawings, now in the 
Society’s possession, is practically finished, and will be printed as 
soon as possible. 
“The catalogue of the Stourhead Collection has proved a more 
considerable task than was anticipated. It has been thought 
desirable to illustrate it as fully as possible, and this has taken a 
good deal of time and attention. It will, it is hoped, prove to be 
one of the most important publications of the Society. The col- 
lection is recognised far beyond the limits of the county to be one 
of very great interest. Numbers 84 and 85 of the Magazine have 
been issued during the year. 
“In these days of amateur photography, the Committee would 
call special attention to the report on Photographic Surveys bound 
up with No, 84. It contains many useful suggestions. 
“Unfortunately no member of the Committee was able to attend 
the annual Congress of Archeological Societies at Burlington House, 
in 1895. 
“ Among architectural works which have been undertaken in the 
county during the year the great enterprise of securing the safety 
