REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. A) 
inquiries as those, which the Society was embodied in 
order to prosecute, and which, to be successfully con- 
ducted, require at once widely-spread exertions and united 
efforts; and with the more extended knowledge of what 
the Society has already accomplished, the many interesting 
parts it has been enabled to record, and the light it has 
thrown on the darker eras of our history—with these, it 
may be reasonably expected that cach succeeding year will 
present a goodly addition to its subseribing members, and 
thus render it more efficient, and better adapted to the re- 
quirements of our extensive county ; for in prosecuting 
arch&ological and other scientific inquiries, it is unfortu- 
nately as true as in most other cases, that independently of 
all the zeal and talent which may be exerted, it is money 
which constitutes the sinews. 
“ For further justification of these hopes, the Committee 
refer to the estimate which appears to have been formed 
of the Somersetshire Arch&ological and Natural History 
Society beyond the limits of the county. Thus exchanges 
of publications have been agreed upon between this 
Society and the Archzological Institute of Great Britain ; 
the Eeclesiological Society; the British Archzological 
Association ; the Sussex Archzological Society ; the Bristol 
and West of England Architectural Society ; the Archi- 
teetural Society of Northampton; the Surrey Archzxolo- 
gical Society; and the Societ&E Vaudoise des Sciences 
Naturelles at Lausanne. 
“Your Committee feel that they may regard in the same 
view the handsome donations which still continue to be 
made to the museum, and the valuable deposits confided 
during the last year to the care of the Curator. Among 
these will be found curious and interesting pamphlets of 
ancient date; valuable works of reference ; fossils from 
