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The Committee and Officers of the Society were then re-elected, 

 on the proposition of the Kev. 0. M. Holden, with the addition of 

 Mr. B. H. Cunnington, F.S.A., Scot., as Hon. Meeting Secretary, 

 an office now for the first time created in accordance with the 

 recommendation of the Committee in the annual report. 



The Hon. Secretary then read a letter from the Secretaries of 

 the National Trust suggesting that the time had come to form in 

 every district a League for the Preservation of Natural Scenery, 

 which should keep an eye on everything which tended to injure it. 

 The general feeling of the meeting was that whilst fully sympa- 

 thising with the object of the National Trust, no good purpose 

 would be served by the formation of a new league in Wiltshire, 

 and that the Members of the Wilts Archaeological Society might 

 be trusted to hear of anything likely to injure the scenery of the 

 county, and if necessary take action in the matter. 



Mrs. Cunnington then exhibited certain Egyptian beads which 

 she had obtained from Prof. Minders Petrie, the date of which 

 could be definitely fixed, with the object of exhibiting them in the 

 Society's Museum beside the " Cylindrical notched glass beads " of 

 which the Society possesses a large series from the Wiltshire 

 Bronze Age Barrows. Professor Sayce has definitely said that 

 these beads are identical with the Egyptian examples. Mrs. 

 Cunnington asked that she might be allowed to send Prof. Flinders 

 Petrie one of the Wiltshire beads from the Museum in exchange 

 for those from Egypt. Permission was readily granted for the 

 exchange. 



This finished the business of the Meeting, and the Members 

 adjourned to the Grosvenor Arms Hotel, where the Mayor and 

 Mayoress most kindly entertained them at tea. After tea the old 

 Church of S. Peter was visited, and the Vicar, the Kev. F. 

 Ehlvers, pointed out the principal objects of interest, a very fine 

 jcarved oak Laudian altar table, some nice bench ends, and a very 

 icurious carved alms box. From the Church the party proceeded 

 |to the site of the Abbey excavations, where the Vicar again very 

 kindly gave an account ol such remains of walls as are visible, 

 'most of them rapidly crumbling away, and showed with justifiable 



