The Anniversary General Meeting of the Society. 855 



number of names now on the books amounts to three hundred and 

 forty-two, being a decrease of nineteen since last year. 



" As regards the out-door work of the Society, a thorough ex- 

 amination has been made of the large mound abutting on the 

 churchyard of Ogbourne St. Andrew, chiefly under the direction of 

 the Messrs. Cunnington, from whom we are expecting a full report 

 in the Magazine} There has been, as the Members are aware, no 

 Geaeral Meeting of the Society, for excursions, this year, 



"In respect of publication, the Society has not only put forth the 

 two numbers of the Magazine, which are now its general annual 

 issue ; but has also made a large venture, and expended nearly all 

 of its available capital, in re-publishing the Rev. A. C. Smith's 

 " British and Roman Antiquities of North Wilts " (a large portion 

 of the first edition having been unhappily destroyed by fire) . To 

 this the Committee was led by the liberal offer of the Rev. T. A. 

 Preston of the presentation of three hundred sets of the sheets of 

 the large map of ' One Hundred Square Miles Round Abury.' 



" Financially, but for the extraordinary expenditure above-men- 

 tioned, the balance in hand would have been increased by some £25, 

 thanks in great measure to the handsome sum of £21 forwarded as 

 the net proceeds of the very successful Meeting at Shaftesbury last 

 year. The accumulated balance of the Society amounts to about £70. 



" It remains to urge upon the Members of the Society generally 

 continued exertions in bringing to light and recording the objects 

 of interest which from time to time reveal themselves throughout 

 the county; and we may, perhaps, at this time especially entreat 

 the Local Secretaries to exert themselves in their respective localities, 

 in inviting new Members to join the Society, and to fill up the 

 measure of our former Members. This is the more to be desired, 

 inasmuch as a diminution of Members means a diminution of 

 income ', and while, on the one hand, without sufficient funds the 

 work of the Society is necessarily hampered and restricted, on the 

 other hand, there is ample work for the Society to do for many a 

 year to come, before the antiquities of Wiltshire are brought to 



> See above, pp. 345—348. 



