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was read; at which time the balance in hand was announced as about 

 £152. 



" The Magazine has been continued so far as the funds available 

 for publication would allow ; and two numbers have been issued 

 since this time last year ; it is hoped with no decline of interesting 

 material. Another number is in progress, and will be published in 

 the course of the autumn. 



" The Museum has received many valuable additions during the 

 past twelvemonths ; among which should specially be mentioned a 

 large collection of Roman- British specimens of pottery, and metal 

 vases and implements excavated at Westbury, through the exertions 

 of Mr. Anderson, of the iron works. 



" The Library has been enriched by a gift from the Rev. Canon 

 Cleather, Vicar of Aldbourne, of an admirable copy of Andrewes and 

 Dury's Map of Wiltshire, in a series of sheets, bound together in 

 one volume. 



" It is unnecessary to enter into further details of the work and 

 progress of the Society, Your Committee would only add their 

 best thanks for the help accorded to them in many quarters ; while 

 they express an earnest hope that throughout the county regard will 

 be had to the preservation of all objects of interest, whether in the 

 field of Archaeology or of Natural History ; and invite communication 

 on any discovery which may be made. At the same time they beg 

 most emphatically to declare that so far from having exhausted the 

 objects, for the investigation of which this Society was formed (as 

 some have rashly surmised), they have as yet but made a beginning 

 in the vast field before them, and merely disclosed a fraction of the 

 almost inexhaustible treasures which the County of Wilts, on its 

 downs and in its vales, above all other counties, contains/'' 



Sir John Lubbock said it devolved upon him as President of the 

 Society, to have the agreeable duty of moving the adoption of the 

 report, and he congratulated the members on the nourishing state 

 of the Society, which was due in such a great measure to the ex- 

 ertions of the officers, and especially the indefatigable Secretary, 

 Mr. Smith. He thought when they examined the programmes 

 issued and the maps prepared that they might look forward to a 



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