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years ago, to enable the alterations to the Museum to be carried 

 out. 



" The Mtiseum. — The most notable additions in the way of an- 

 tiquities during the year have been the valuable series of Anglo- 

 Saxon objects found many years ago at Basset Down, lately given 

 to the Museum by Mr. N. Story Maskelyne, and various results of 

 recent excavations given by Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Cunnington ; whilst 

 the Natural History collections have been much enriched by the 

 kind loan of the white-tailed eagle shot atMarden, by Mr. Kingston, 

 and by the purchase of the twelve cases of valuable Wiltshire 

 birds of which a note appears in the June number of the Magazine. 

 The cost of this purchase was largely met by special donations from 

 ten Members of the Society. The Archaeological Collections, thanks 

 to the hard work done by Mr. and Mrs. Cunnington, are now in 

 excellent order, and it is hoped that a fully-illustrated catalogue of 

 these collections may be in the hands of members before the next 

 report is issued. The Entomological Collection, under the care of 

 Mr. E. Cook, is also well cared for, but we still need a competent 

 geologist, with time to spare, who would devote himself to the 

 Society's valuable and extensive collection of "Wiltshire fossils. 



"The Library. — During the past year the catalogue of the Library 

 has been carefully revised, and brought up to date, as has also the 

 catalogue of the Drawings and Prints. The principal gift received 

 has been that of many hundred old Wiltshire deeds from Mr. 

 C. C, Bradford, to whom the Society has in past years been 

 indebted for many gifts of a like kind. The onerous work of 

 cataloguing and editing these MSS. has been most kindly under- 

 taken, as in the past, by Mr. A. Story Maskelyne. The Society 

 has to thank Miss M. M. Bradford for undertaking the work of 

 mounting and indexing a further volume of Wiltshire Cuttings 

 and Scraps. 



" Excavations. — The great work of the excavation of Old Sarixm, 

 which was begun last autumn under the direction of the Society 

 of Antiquaries, has been resumed this year. Some account of the 

 work done last year was published in the December number of the 

 Magazine. Up to the present this has consisted in the clearing of 



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