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The Museum Maintenance Fund received from subscriptions, 

 sale of duplicate books, admissions to Museum, etc., during the 

 year 1912 a total of £64 8s. 9d. 



In addition to these funds, extra subscriptions to the amount of 

 £95 for the raising of the Avebury stones and £10 for the pur- 

 chase of the chest for the Museum, were raised during the year. 

 The Society has now no outstanding debt. 



The Museum and Library. — A considerable number of gifts to 

 the Museum have been received during the year, which have been 

 acknowledged in the Magazine, amongst the most notable being 

 the old colours and banner of the Eoyal Wilts Yeomanry, placed 

 in the Museum with the special case made to contain them by Mr- 

 G. LI. Palmer. A large number of specimens of pottery and other 

 antiquities, the result of various excavations by the Curator and 

 Mrs. Cunnington, have also been placed in the museum during the 

 year. A remarkable iron-bound chest from Upavon, probably 

 once a church chest in that neighbourhood, was purchased for £10 

 for the museum, the whole of the cost being contributed by 20 

 subscribers. The work of binding the early Wiltshire newspapers 

 has been continued, the catalogues of books and prints have been 

 brought up-to-date, a new catalogue of the Society's collection of 

 portraits has been compiled, and one new scrap book of portraits 

 and two of prints have been completed during the year and 

 placed in the library. The offer of a large collection of oil 

 paintings of Stonehenge by the late Edgar Barclay, kindly made 

 to the Society by his sister, Mrs. Beet Irving, had to be reluctantly 

 declined, owing to lack of room to display them at the Museum, 

 and the pictures have found a home in the new Salisbury Art 

 G-allery. 



Excavations. — A good deal of digging has been done during the 

 year in the county. The work at Old Sarum has been steadily 

 continued, and the foundations of the Cathedral and the buildings 

 in its neighbourhood have been laid bare. Mr. and Mrs. Cunnington 

 completed their work at Casterley Camp last autumn, and the 

 account of their labours is printed in the number of the Magazine 

 just issued. "Dwelling Pits" at Wilsford and at Winterbourne 



