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The Fiftieth General Meeting. 



" THE ACCOUNTS for the year, which will be printed and issued 

 in the next number of the Magazine, are of an unusual character. 

 The disbursements include the purchase money and costs of the 

 recent addition to the Society's property, viz., No. 40, Long Street, 

 Devizes. But for a temporary advance made by a very staunch 

 friend of the Society, of a sum of £200 without interest, the balance 

 on the year's accounts would have been very much on the wrong 

 side. Subscriptions have been on the whole well paid up, but we 

 again urge upon the Members that it would be of great advantage 

 if the form of standing orders to 1 >ankers was more generally made 

 use of. It would ensure punctual payment, and would save many 

 letters and postage. The demand for Magazines has been 

 unusually large. The number of Canon Jackson's ' Aubrey's 

 Wilts ' being much diminished, this publication will not in future 

 be procurable at a reduced price. A balance of nearly £5 upon 

 the accounts of the Chippenham Meeting last year was handed to 

 the Society by the Local Committee. A proposal for an extension 

 of the scheme for life Membership is under consideration. 



«2._ No. XC VIII. of the Magazine, which concludes Vol. XXXIL, 

 was delayed some time owing to some very laborious work under- 

 taken at short notice by Mr. Goddard, in preparing a very ex- 

 haustive index to the preceding eight volumes. This makes the 

 volume a bulky one ; and some valuable papers make it an im- 

 portant one. No. XCIX. has quite recently reached members' 

 hands. It contains the paper read at the last Annual Meeting of 1 

 the Society, by Dr. Gowland, upon his researches at Stonehenge. 

 Both numbers contain some interesting notes and notices, obituary j 

 and literary, of current as well as permanent interest. 



« 3.— AS TO OUE NUMBEES. On the 30th June, 1902, we had j 

 on our books three hundred and seventy-one names. This year 

 the numbers are : — nineteen Life Members, three hundred and 

 twenty-six Annual, and twenty Exchange, making a total of three ) 

 hundred and sixty-five, which is exactly the same as in 1901. We j 

 do not progress as we could desire ; we lose too many Members j 

 by resignation, and in spite of considerable efforts we have failed 

 again and again to get our numbers up to four hundred, which is 



