186 The Fifty-Sixth General Meeting. 



" Finance. — The detailed accounts which appear in the current 

 number of the Magazine show that on the general account, at the 

 close of the financial year, there was a credit balance of £35 2s. b^d., 

 as against a credit balance of £50 18s. at the close of 1907. The 

 financial result of the Salisbury Meeting last year was that 

 £3 6s. Id. was handed over to the Society. 



"Members. — The number of Members on the books in June 

 1909, was 16 Life Members and 365 Annual Subscribers, a total 

 of 381, against 400 in June of last year, with 24 societies and 

 institutions, with whom publications are exchanged. There have 

 been 10 lapses by death, and 41 new Members have joined the 

 Society. We regret to have to report that a number of Members 

 had fallen into arrears with their subscriptions, in some cases for 

 several years. The Committee is much indebted to Mr. Cunnington, 

 who undertook to write to these Members, and as a result 

 of the correspondence ^ considerable amount of arrears 

 was paid, while on the other hand some members resigned 

 and some were struck off the list of the Society, it being impossible 

 to trace them. Thus, in spite of a large addition of new Members 

 during the year, the total number appearing on the Society's list 

 is less by nineteen than it was a year ago. It is much to be hoped 

 that in the future Members will not allow their subscriptions to 

 get into arrears (a banker's order to pay such can be obtained 

 from the Financial Secretary). It is to be remembered that under 

 the rules of the Society the Magazines are issued only to those who 

 have paid their subscriptions for the year. 



" Museum. — The number of visitors to the Museum during the 

 year, exclusive of Members, was 642 and 42 from classes in neigh- 

 bouring schools, against 897 of the preceding year, but these latter 

 figures included 151 from schools, and also on each occasion 

 on which they met the Members of the Devizes Field Club, which 

 club is allowed the use of the Museum for their meetings. In the 

 figures of this year the Field Club Members, who accounted for 

 about 100 of the figures of the preceding year, are not included. 

 Mrs. Willis, the caretaker recently appointed, now resides on 

 the premises, and has satisfactorily carried out her duties. 



