2 EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



rneans can be clevised to increase our funds. The Com- 

 mittee have not thought the funds of the Society suffi- 

 ciently prosperous to justify any considerable purchases; 

 but numerous additions, many of tbem of much interest, 

 have been inade to our Collection, by the kindness of 

 individual contributors. 



"The Casts from the Wells Sculptures, purchased last 

 year, have been carefully and judiciously arranged, in such 

 a manner as to be at once highly ornamental to the 

 Museum, and to afford a most interesting study to the 

 lovers of Mediäval Art. 



" The Conversazione Meetings, held at Taunton during 

 the winter months, have been well attended, and the 

 Papers read on those occasions have served materially to 

 promote the interests and objects of the Society. The 

 expenses on account of these meetings, hotvever, do not 

 fall upon the general funds of the Society, but are de- 

 frayed exclusively, as heretofore, by those members who 

 attend them. 



"The Committee confidently hope that the volume of 

 Proceedings due this year, the publication of which has 

 been unavoidably delayed, will not be deemed inferior to 

 any which the Society has as yct published, either in 

 matter or illustration. 



"It was originally intended that the Annual Meeting of 

 the Society should have been held at Bridgwater in the 

 course of the present month for the dispatch of business, 

 and, as usual, for reading Papers and making Excursions ; 

 but, the British Archrcological Association having fixed 

 upon the same time and place for their Annual Congress, 

 the Committee determined to cede the ground to them 

 this year, and to recommend the Members of this Society 

 to attend their Meeting as visitors. Our present Annual 



