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condition, since the balance in hand now amounts to £383, which 

 represents an increase of £55 since last year's Report. The Com- 

 mittee would however here take leave to press on the attention of 

 Members that the furnishing' and arranging the new Library and 

 Museum are necessarily attended with considerable expense, and 

 require all the available resources of the Society : and they would 

 here urge on all who have the interest of the Society at heart, and 

 have not yet contributed, to add their names to the donation list, 

 which is still open, and which your Committee earnestly hopes will 

 yet be largely increased. 



" The Museum and Eibrary have been enriched by many contribu- 

 tions during the past twelvemonth, all of which have been acknow- 

 ledged, with hearty thanks to the donors, in the Magazine : but your 

 Committee desire here to record the special obligations of the Society 

 to the Devizes Literary and Scientific Institution, who most generously, 

 and by resolution at a public meeting of their body, have made a 

 donation of many valuable specimens and cases to the Society. 

 Amongst these some of the Ethnological specimens are specially 

 valuable, while many of the Geological and Natural History objects 

 are of considerable local interest. 



" Then, with regard to the work of the Society, two Numbers of 

 the Magazine, have, as usual, been issued within the last twelvemonth; 

 both of which, your Committee thinks, will bear fair comparison 

 with their predecessors. 



" But the energies of the officers of the Society have been mainly 

 directed, during the past year, to the new Museum and Library, 

 which are now satisfactorily progressing towards completion ; but 

 which cannot be fitted, furnished, and arranged without a great deal 

 of hard work ; and for this they are almost entirely indebted to the 

 activity and zeal of Mr. Cunnington. 



" So much as regards the position and work of the Society during 

 the past twelvemonths ; and if a certain monotony appears in the 

 annual Reports of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History 

 Society, it is, we must beg leave to remark, the monotony of con- 

 tinued success, and of cordial feelings of good will and co-operation 

 on the part of both Members and Officers of the Society. 



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