Society’s Report. 5 
October of that year, the members numbered 137. At our second 
general meeting, held in Salisbury last year, they reached the 
number of 281; and up to the present time the total number of 
persons who have been admitted is 375, being an increase of 94 
during the last twelve months. We have to regret the loss by 
decease of 4 Life Members, and of 3 Annual Subscribers, and by 
withdrawal or removal from the county of 13 Annual Subscribers ; 
leaving a total at the present time of 355, of whom 20 are Life 
Members. 
With reference to our financial position, your Committee have to 
report that the subscriptions and donations have amounted, during 
the year, to £354 15s. 7d.; the disbursements to £227 14s. 2d. ; 
we have in hand, £134 18s. 1ld., and arrears of subscriptions, 
£97 10s. 6d. Many subscriptions having continued unpaid, it 
was resolved at a committee meeting held in Devizes, June 20th, 
1855, that forms of receipt should be printed and supplied to the 
local secretaries, who were also requested to collect subscriptions 
from members residing in their respective districts. By these 
means many arrears and subscriptions have been gathered in, which 
it would have been found difficult and troublesome to obtain in any 
other way. 
The Committee desire to impress upon the consideration of the 
members the necessity of their zealous co-operation. The objects 
which the Society has in view are so extensive, viz.—the collection 
of accurate information on the Archeology, Ecclesiology, and 
Natyral History of the entire county, that without such co-opera- 
tion, it will be impossible for the Committee to prosecute their 
labours with success, or to accomplish that which the members in 
general expect from them. We look to you for materials for our 
Magazine, and we would even invite those gentlemen residing in 
the county, or possessing subjects of interest relating to it, who are 
not members of the Society, to communicate with us. It is sometimes 
not convenient, or possible, for them to incur the risk and expense 
of printing their collections, whereas at a trifling cost to themselves 
for postage, and by means of our Magazine, they may make known 
much very valuable information. However essential the subscrip- 
tions of the members may be for the support of the Society, its 
