2 ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING. 



On the motion of tlie ßev. F. Warre, secondetl by the 

 Rev. W. F. Neville, J. H. Parker, Esq., of Oxford, was 

 iinanimouslj elected an honorary member of the Society. 



The Rev. F. Warre, Secretary, read the 



ANNUAL REPORT : 



" The Committee in this their Eleventh Annual Report 

 have the satisfaction to record that the Operations of the 

 Society during the past year, while presenting no new 

 feature of special interest, have continued to further the 

 objects for which the Society was established. 



" They would refer to the volume of Proccedings recently 

 issued as an indication of the progress which is being made 

 towards collecting materials for a County History, and 

 they feel assured that the periodical issue of these volumes 

 will be the meaus of creating and sustaining more generally 

 an interest in the objects and pursuits to which the Society 

 is devoted. The outlay, however, which the production 

 of such a volume involves, without any of those special 

 donations from individual members Avhich other societies 

 of a similar nature frequently obtain, necessarily absorbs 

 so large a proportion of the annual income, as to leave a 

 very small balance for carrying out other purposes erpally 

 important. 



" The Library and Museum of the Society have been 

 enriched during the past year by donations of valuable 

 books and of various objects of interest. Among these 

 they would particularly refer to Stothard's Moriumental 

 Effigies and Iloare's Jrdtshire, presented by the Rev. F. 

 Warre. The Committee are anxious to enlarge and 

 improve this dcpartment, from a conviction that a good 

 County Museum is one of the best aids towards a good 

 County History. 



