278 



Tht Forty-Eiyhth General Meeting. 



much as usual. Owing, however, bo parts of two volumes of 

 Wiltshire Inquisitiones Post Mortem having been paid for in one 

 year, an extra expense of about £21 was incurred under the head 

 of printing for Magazines. The Committee bender their thanks to 

 Messrs. G. S. A. Waylen and E. F. Toone for auditing the accounts. 



" 3. As to our NUMBERS — we had on our books on 1st July, 

 1901, three hundred and sixty-five Members. On the 30th June 

 last the total number was three hundred and seventy-one ; con- 

 sisting of nineteen Life Members, three hundred and thirty-two 

 Animal Subscribers and twenty Exchange Members. We never 

 quite attain to four hundred Members. May we not suggest that 

 an effort on the part of our Officers, our Hon. Local Secretaries, 

 and of the Members generally, should result in our increasing 

 the number to at least four hundred next year, when we hope to 

 celebrate our Jubilee ? We have lost eleven by resignation. The 

 reason is obvious in some cases, but we regret that gentlemen still 

 residing in the county should find reason to leave us. Death has 

 removed eleven of our Members, nearly all of whom had at one 

 time or another taken an active interest in the Society and its 

 work. We mention especially Bishop Brownlow, The Rev. W. 

 Dowding, and Mrs. Kenrick. Twenty-eight new Members have 

 been elected, all of whom it is hoped will find pleasure in having 

 joined ns. We can assure all the Members that the value, and use, 

 and good work of the Society are being year by year more generally 

 recognised not only in the county, but by important authorities 

 outside of it. 



"4. Numbers XCYI. and XCVII. of the Mmjnzinr have been 

 issued, comprising parts of volume XXXII. The former is a 

 remarkable contribution to bibliographical work for which we are 

 indebted greatly to VY-. Jerome Harrison, Ksq., F.d.S. It is the 

 result of manv years of study and labour, and records all books 

 relating to Stonehenge and Avebury, the two great rude stone 

 monuments which make Wiltshire famous. We invite attention 

 to the summary and remarks at the end of this number, as well as 

 tn ii> contents. No. XCVII., recently issued, has much in it of 

 the usual general interest. Part I. of a new and earlier series of 



