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which representatives of the County, District, and Parish Councils 

 were also invited. The resolutions arrived at by the Joint Com- 

 mittee were carefully considered on the spot and entirely approved 

 by those present. As a result, Stonehenge is now under effective 

 control, and it is hoped that the steps taken will result in its most 

 careful preservation. 



" The attention of the Committee has Jbeen called during the 

 year, amongst other things, to the proposed cleaning and scraping 

 of the Market Cross at Salisbury, and to the injury being done to 

 the fine long barrow at Winterbourne Stoke cross roads. The 

 Salisbury Town Council yielded to the representations made 

 by our Society and by the Society of Antiquaries, and has decided 

 not to scrape the stonework of the Market Cross. The Secretary 

 lost no time in interceding for the preservation of one of the 

 finest of the long barrows, and it is hoped that further damage to 

 it is averted. 



" The work of preserving the ruins of Malmesbury Abbey is 

 progressing by degrees. It is a slow and costly undertaking, and 

 good judgment and much care will be required to bring it to a 

 satisfactory issue from an archaeological point of view. 



" It had been hoped that we might have connected our Annual 

 Meeting in some way with the commemoration of the thousandth 

 anniversary of King Alfred's reign, but this could not be arranged. 

 We must draw the attention of our Members however, to the 

 assemblage at Winchester later in the season, when this event will 

 be celebrated. 



"The last Meeting at Trowbridge took place in 1872, under the 

 presidency of the late Mr. Penruddocke. It it hoped that the 

 Meeting now about to commence will be at least as successful and 

 interesting as the former." 



The Eeport, with some slight additions, having been adopted, and 

 a number of new Members elected, the business meeting came to 

 an end, and the Members proceeded to the charming garden of the 

 Eectory, where they were most hospitably entertained at tea by 

 the Eev. A. C. D. Eyder, Eector of Trowbridge. The EECTOEY 



