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the readiness and liberality he showed in consigning 1 such precious 

 treasures to our custody : and then to record its obligations to the 

 Curators, Messrs. Olivier and Henry Cunnington, by whose efforts 

 (and they were indefatigable in the work) this most desirable transfer 

 was brought about. Those gentlemen themselves went down to 

 Stourhead, and packed and brought away the many valuable speci- 

 mens, so precious in the eyes of all Wiltshire antiquarians, as the 

 spoil of the barrows on our downs : and not content with simply 

 depositing them in our Museum, they have since, at a very con- 

 siderable expenditure of time and labour, admirably arranged and 

 labelled the several specimens, with the greatest judgment and good 

 taste. Your Committee desires to repeat its cordial thanks to those 

 gentlemen, as well as to Sir Henry Hoare, for the ready permission 

 he gave for this transfer of the Stourhead heirlooms to Devizes. 



" It only remains for your Committee to explain that the Annual 

 Meeting of the Society for this year, which had been arranged to 

 be held at Marlborough, was postponed till next year in consequence 

 of the lamented death of Lord Ailesbury; to thank all who have in 

 any way assisted in making known and preserving such archaeolog- 

 ical objects of interest as from time to time have been discovered; 

 and again to invite the co-operation of all in every part of the county 

 in regard to the objects we have in view, viz., the ' collecting and 

 publishing information on archaeology and natural history, more 

 particularly in reference to the county of Wilts/ " 



The Report was unanimously adopted, and ordered to be printed 

 in the Magazine. 



The President (Sir John Lubbock) whose three years of office 

 had expired, was requested to retain office during one more year, in 

 order to preside over the Annual Meeting of 1879, intended to be 

 held at Marlborough. 



The following names were added to the list of Vice-Presidents 

 of the Society : The Most Hon. the Marquis of Bath, The Right 

 Hon. Lord Heytesbury, Sir H. A. Hoare, Bart. 



The following noblemen and gentlemen were added as Trustees 

 of the Society : The Most Hon. the Marquis of Bath, The Most 

 Hon. the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir John Neeld, Bart., Sir John 



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