ANNTTAT. MEETING. 



The Annual Meeting of the Society will be held at Salisbury, 



Jnh/ 14t/>—Hif/i. 

 July 14th. — The General Meeting will be held at the County Hotel, 



2.30. The Cathedral and other objects of interest in Salisbiu-y 



will be visited in the afternoon, and a limited number of 



Members Avill visit Longford Castle. 

 July loth. — There will be an Excursion to Dean, Mottisfont Abbey, 



and Romsey Abbey. 

 July lOth, to Mere and Stoiuion. 

 Papers on Salisbury Guilds, Romsey Abbey, &c., &c., will be read 



at tlie Evening Conversaziones on the 14th and 15th. 

 *^* The surplus proceeds of the Meeting will be given to the fund 



for the repair of the Cathedral Tower and Spire. 



QUERIES AND REQUESTS. 



NOTES ON LOCAL ARCH>EOLOGY AND NATURAL HISTORY. 



The Editor of the Maf/aztne asks Members in all parts of the county 

 to send him short, concise notes of a,nything of interest, in the 

 way of either Archaeology or Natural History', connected with 

 Wiltshire, for insertion in the Magazine. 



CHURCHYARO INSCRIPTIONS. 



The Rev. E. H. Goodard woiild 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 churchj'ard, Avith 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 Ai'chteological Societies and issued ANith No. 84 

 of the Mofiazine. The Committee regard as very desirable 

 the acquisition of good photographs of objects of archoeological 

 and architectural interest in the county, in which special at- 

 tention is given to the acciu'ate presentment of detail rather 

 than to the general effect of the picture. The Secretaries would 

 be glad to hear fi-om 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 A'.s.s than 

 half-plato size, unmounted, and iniiHt be printed in permanent 

 proeexs. 



TO BE DISPOSED OF, a duplicate copy of each of the followins 

 books: — Hoare's "Ancient Wiltshire," 2 vols., folio; "Modern Wilts," 

 " Hundreds of Heytesbury " and " Branch and Dole," 2 vols., folio ; 

 Canon Jackson's "History of Grittleton," Ito ; Aubrey's "Natural 

 History of Wilts," 4to ; Smith's " Choir Gaur," large paper 4to ; also the 

 first five vols, of " The Wilts Magazine," containing all the rare numbers 

 of liiat publication.— Apply to Mb. W. Cushiuqtos, 58, Acre-lane, 

 London, S.W. 



