328 The Fifty -Eighth General Meeting. 



" Members. — The membership of the Society on June 6th, 1911^ j 

 was 374 (16 Life Members and 358 Annual Subscribers), as against 

 386 at the corresponding period last year. The Society lost 20 

 Members by resignation and 11 by death, a loss of 31 in all, against 

 which only 19 new Members were elected during the year. There 

 was therefore a net loss of 12 Members. The Committee appeal 

 to all Members of the Society, and more especially to the Local 

 Secretaries, either themselves to ask all likely residents in their 

 neighbourhood to join the Society, or to send their names to the 

 Hon. Secretary, who will gladly write to them. Chief among the 

 losses by death are those of Mr. N. Story-Maskelyne, F.E.S. 

 President of the Society 1884 — 86, who to the end of his long life 

 was a constant and generous supporter of the Society's work ; and 

 of Mr. C. F. Hart, of Devizes, for many years an active and regular 

 attendant at our quarterly Committee meetings. 



''Finance. — The year 1910 ended with a balance on the General 

 Fund of £76 18s. 5|d, as against a balance of £37 19s. l\d. with 

 which it began ; the Life Membership Fund, from which one-tenth 

 is annually paid to the General Fund, showing a balance of 

 £62 10s. M., as against £75 6s. U. on December 31st, 1909. Thia I 

 satisfactory financial condition is chiefly due to the unprecedented 

 balance handed to the Society at the close of the Annual Meeting 

 at Calne, which amounted to £36 10s. During 1910, £13 was 

 repaid from the Museum Enlargement Fund, to which the rent of 

 the caretaker's house is credited, to the General Fund, leaving 

 about £27 still owing to that fund of the £50 borrowed from it 

 three years ago. The only outstanding debt due from the Society 

 is £50 still owing to Mr. W. Heward Bell of the sum lent l:)y him, 

 without interest, to the Society for the expenses of the Museum 

 enlargement several years ago. 



"The total of subscriptions received by the Museum Maintenance 

 Fund during 1910 was £38 7s. 6c?. whilst the amount of admission 

 fees and donations in the Museum box was £8 14s. 5c?. 



" The Tropenell Cartulary Fund showed a balance of £26 Is. lid. 

 on December 31st, 1910. This sum will be used for the printing 

 of the Museum Catalogue now in hand. 



