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NOTES ON WILTSHIRE MATTERS. 
‘The Editor will be glad to receive, for insertion in the Magazine, 
any short Notes on Antiquarian, Genealogical, or Historical 
matters connected with the County, as well as on any interest- 
ing points of Wiltshire Natural History or Geology. 
QUERIES AND REQUESTS. 
CHURCHYARD INSCRIPTIONS. 
The Rev. E. H. Gopparp would be glad to hear from anyone who 
is willing to take the trouble of copying the whole of the in- 
scriptions on the tombstones in any churchyard, with a view to 
helping in the gradual collection of the tombstone inscriptions 
of the county. Up to the present, about thirty-five churches 
and churchyards have been completed or promised. 
- WILTSHIRE PHOTOGRAPHS. 
The attention of Photographers, amateur and professional, is called 
to the Report on Photographic Surveys, drawn up by the 
Congress of Archeological Societies and issued with No. 84 
of the Magazine. The Committee regard as very desirable 
the acquisition of good photographs of objects of archeological 
and architectural interest in the county, m which special at- 
tention is given to the accurate presentment of detail rather 
than to the general effect of the picture. The Secretaries would 
be glad to hear from anyone interested in photography who 
would be willing to help on the work by undertaking to photo- 
graph the objects of interest in their own immediate neighbour- 
hoods. ‘The photographs should, as a rule, be not /ess than 
half-plate size, unmounted, and must be printed in permanent 
process. 
CATALOGUE OF PORTRAITS EXISTING IN THE COUNTY. 
At the Congress of Archeological Societies held December Ist, 
1897, it was resolved to attempt to compile in each county a 
list of all the Portraits at present existing in public and private 
hands; oils, water-colours, drawings, miniatures, busts, &ce., 
to be included. A simple form has been drawn up Mr. Lionel 
Cust, keeper of the National Portrait Gallery, which will 
shortly be ready for distribution. Any lady or gentleman 
who is willing to undertake to fill up this form with the 
details of portraits is requested to communicate with the 
Honorary Secretaries. It is intended that the lists for Wilt- 
shire, when completed, shall be copied in duplicate; one copy 
to be deposited at the National Portrait Gallery, the other to be 
retained by the Wilts Archeeological Society. 
THE BIRDS OF WILTSHIRE. One Volume, 8vo, 613 pp., Extra Cleth, 
By the Rev. A.C Smith, M.A. Price reduced to 10s. 6d. 
