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Henry Ward, all of whom joined the Society above twenty years 

 ago; and there are other honoured names of some who have more 

 recently been enrolled among our Subscribers. New Members have, 

 however, been elected to supply the place of those we have lost, so 

 that the number on our books is very nearly the same as last year, 

 namely 387. 



" As regards the financial position of the Society, our balance in 

 hand is slig-htly increased during the last year, from £133 145. 9d> 

 at its commencement to £176 5s. 4<d. at its close, as will be seen 

 by the balance-sheet just published, and placed in the hands of the 

 members in the course of the last few days. 



,f Of the Magazine, two numbers have been published during the 

 past year, of whose merits the Committee leaves the Society to judge. 

 The last number, just now issued, completes the nineteenth volume. 



" The Museum and Library have been slightly increased by the 

 contributions of various donors ; the museum more especially con- 

 tinues to be enriched by further additions of: Roman-British pottery, 

 and metal vases and implements dug out at Westbury, and secured 

 to the Society by the exertions of the obliging manager, Mr. 

 Anderson. 



" The attention of the Committee has been especially directed 

 during the past year to the state of Stonehenge ; and in conjunction 

 with the Secretary of the British Archaeological Association a repre- 

 sentation has been made to the Society of Antiquaries and the 

 Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain, calling their im- 

 mediate attention to the insecure condition of certain stones in the 

 outer circle, and their imminent danger of falling, in the opinion of 

 several of the officers of this Society, unless steps are speedily taken 

 to re-adjust them. At the same time the question of re-erecting 

 the great trilithon which fell in 1797, which has been so often ad- 

 vocated by archaeologists, was again pressed upon the consideration 

 of the parent Societies. The result has been that the Society of 

 Antiquaries appointed a Committee, consisting of H. S. Milman, 

 Esq. (Director of that Society), G. T. Clark, Esq., J. T. Mickle- 

 thwaite, Esq., Sir John Lubbock, Bart., and the Rev. W. C. Lukis, 

 who visited Stonehenge during last month, and carefully examined 



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