4 PIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



difficulty in obtaining their volumes, tlie Committee take 

 this opportunity of repeating that booksellers have been 

 appointed (as mentioned in the circular letter) in most of 

 the considerable towns of this county, as well as in Bristol, 

 from \A^hom the volumes may be obtained on presentation 

 of the enclosed form, signed by the member who requires 

 the volume. It is particularly requested that members 

 will present these forms, as they are the only vouchers 

 the Publisher has to show that the books have been duly 

 delivered. 



" With regard to the payment of subscriptions, the 

 Committee beg to remind the Society that they are pay- 

 able in advance ; and as the list of names affords the only 

 data by which the Committee can calculate the income of 

 the Society, and consequently the amount of liability they 

 are justified in incurring, all subscriptions, of the with- 

 drawal of which notice has not been given before they 

 became due, must be considered as belonging to the 

 Society. 



" The Conversazione Meetings have been held as usual 

 during the winter, and still appear to maintain the interest 

 excited in previous years. 



" On the whole the Committee feel that they may con- 

 gratulate the Society on its prospects. Its members and 

 its property are increasing, a fine and extensive field of 

 Operations is before it, and there seems to be no want either 

 of ability or good will to work in it. Our funds are as 

 yet equal to our expenditure, but it is much to be wished 

 that some means covld be devised of increasing them, as 

 without a larger income we can hardly procure the plans, 

 drawings, books, &c., needed to render us a body really 

 and effectually beneficial to the interests of archfeological 

 and natural science." 



