448 The Sixtieth General Meeting. 



was now bitterly deplored by everybody witbout exception and 

 would be impossible at tbe present day. Now tbe same thing was 

 happening to Church bells. The resolution was passed and it was 

 left to the Hon. Secretary to take any further steps in the matter. 



THE ANNUAL EEPOET. 



The Committee beg to present the sixtieth annual report of the 

 Society : — 



Members. — The Society, on July 5th, 1913, had 373 Members 

 (13 life and 360 Annual Members), against 379 at tbe same date 

 in 1912, a decrease of 6 during the year. The losses were 21 by 

 resignation* of membership and 13 by death (4 Life Members and 9 

 Annual Members), 34 in all ; whilst 26 new Members were elected 

 (2 life and 24 Annual Members). Among the losses by death are 

 an unusual number of distinguished names — Lord Avebury, Lord 

 Pembroke, Lord Nelson, and the Et. Hon. George Wyndham. The 

 Eev. H. A. Olivier also had long been a Vice-President of the 

 Society. 



Finance. — Owing to the circumstance that the two numbers of 

 the Magazine (117 and 118), the latter including the index to the 

 volume, were both of them expensive numbers, and that the pay- 

 ment for the printing of Part II. of the Catalogue of Antiquities in 

 the Museum, issued in 1911, fell in the year 1912, together with 

 the fact that the last instalment (£50) of the Society's debt of 

 £200 to Mr. W. Heward Bell has been repaid, the balance stand- 

 ing to the credit of the general fund on December 31st, 1912, was 

 only £24 4s. as against £108 15s. 3|d. on December 31st, 1911. 

 The £50 mentioned above has been borrowed from the General 

 Fund, and will be gradually repaid to this fund from the Museum 

 enlargement fund, to which the rent of the caretaker's house is 

 credited, as it becomes due. 



The Museum Maintenance Fund showed a balance on December 

 31st, 1912, of £17 3s, 6d., against £5 15s. 9d. at the end of 1911, 

 and the Life Membership Account a balance of £71 10s. 3d. against 

 £67 3s. 8d. at the same date. 



