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the least we should like t o see on our books. We must rely largely 

 on the Local Secretaries for help in this matter. Death has removed 

 eight of our Members, of whom the Rev. E. C. Awdry and Mr. 

 Watson Taylor were original Members of the Society ; and Mr. 

 Forrester and Mr. Holgate, who had taken an active share in the 

 work as Hon. Local Secretaries. Twenty-two new Members have 

 been elected, and we hope this Jubilee Meeting may result in a 

 large accession to our number. 



" 4. — THE MUSEUM. The receipts for admission to the Museum 

 have been rather more than in previous years. The most notable 

 addition during the year has been a collection of objects given by 

 that veteran friend to the Museum, Mr. William Cunnington, in- 

 cluding a good drinking cup, and a number of very fine and rare 

 Wiltshire fossils, especially a collection of specimens of minute 

 chalk fossils from the inside of flint sponges, discovered by himself 

 many years ago. There have also been added the objects found 

 during the excavation of the lioman villa at Box, and a collection 

 of modern Hint knapper's work from Brandon, given by Mr. B. H. 

 Cunnington, Hon. Curator. 



" 5. — THE LIBRARY. We have to thank several Wiltshire 

 authors for their works during the year. Some more volumes of 

 Wiltshire Tracts have been bound up, and a large collection of 

 sale particulars of estates in the neighbourhood of Swindon have 

 been added to the Library, by the kind gift of Mr. C. C. Bradford. 

 In this connection we would call attention again to the fact that 

 all such matter will be most thankfully received by the Society, if 

 gentlemen would take the trouble to post it to the Museum or to 

 the Secretaries, instead of putting it into the waste paper basket. 

 A large scrap-book has been filled with cuttings from newspapers 

 and other Wiltshire ' Miscellanea,' and the whole carefully indexed 

 by the Eev. C. V. Goddard. We would also mention a valuable 

 gift by Mr. C. Awdry, of a large quantity of back numbers of the 

 Magazine, of some of which the Society had very few in stock. 



" 6. — THE ROMAN VILLA AT BOX. The most noteworthy event 

 in the way of Archaeology during the past year has been the 

 thorough excavation of a Boman villa at Box, a laborious and 



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