The Eeport. 517 



" The Annual Meeting last year at Bradford-on-Avon was in 

 point of numbers and of interest, as well as in its financial results, 

 one of the most successful that the Society has held for many years, 

 a success for which the Society's thanks are chiefly due to the 

 admirable organisation of Mr. A. W. N. Burder, who acted as 

 Local Secretary. 



EDWABD H. GODDARD, \ „ „ 

 EDWARD 0. P. BOUVERIE, ) a<yn " * ecs - 



MR. MEDLICOTT, in drawing attention to one or two points 

 in the Eeport, impressed upon Members and others that the Society 

 was not merely a North Wilts institution, but that it made every 

 effort to include the whole of the county in its operations. He 

 then dwelt on the fact that the Society's Museum and Library at 

 Devizes is essentially and rigidly confined, as far as may be, to objects 

 of interest connected directly with the County of Wilts, and went on 

 to congratulate MR. AND MRS. CUNNINGTON in the name of 

 the Society upon the excellent work that they have done, both at 

 the Museum, and also in the way of excavations amongst the 

 earthworks of Wiltshire. The adoption of the Report was then 

 carried, on the motion of MR R. STONE, seconded by the REV- 

 O. M. HOLDEN. Three new Members having been duly elected, 

 and the Officers of the Society re-appointed en bloc, after a few 

 words from the chairman regretting the absence from ill-health of 

 one of the Hon. Secretaries, MR. E. O. P. BOUVERIE, the REV. 

 E. H. GODDARD, as Hon. Librarian, brought forward a motion 

 already approved of by a previous Committee Meeting that certain 

 useless books and pamphlets, now in the Library, be disposed of. 

 He explained that by the rules nothing belonging to the Society 

 can be sold or got rid of except with the consent of a General 

 Meeting of the Society. Eor many years the Library had been 

 confined to three classes of books, (a) books and pamphlets bearing 

 directly on Wiltshire matters of any kind whatever ; (&) books and 

 pamphlets on any subject written by natives of, or residents in,, 

 the county ; (c) standard works of reference on archaeological or 

 natural history subjects, or Transactions of Societies with whom we 

 exchange publications. The books and pamphlets which it was now 



