220 The Thirteenth Annual Meeting. 



the volume now in preparation. With regard to that publication, 

 the second number for the current year will, it is hoped, be in the 

 hands of members in the course of a few days ; and a considerable 

 amount of material is ready for the succeeding number, which will 

 be immediately begun, and will complete the 10th volume. But 

 the Society has not confined its labours since the last annual meeting, 

 to publication only. Researches which, it is believed, are import- 

 ant in their results, have been made at Avebury, under the imme- 

 diate direction of its Secretaries, the details of which will appear in 

 the Magazine. In regard to the state of our finances, the Com- 

 mittee is enabled to make a highly satisfactory report ; the greater 

 part of the arrears are now collected, and the balance in hand, 

 after all outstanding accounts are paid, amounts to about £180. 

 It had been the intention, as we believe is generally known, to hold 

 the General Annual Meeting at Chippenham this autumn, but for 

 certain cogent reasons, arising in part from the unavoidable pre- 

 occupation of those on whom the arrangements for such a meeting 

 usually devolve, and partly from the unwillingness of the Com- 

 mittee to exhaust the Archaeological appetite of its members with 

 too frequent meetings for antiquarian purposes ; it was determined 

 to let the admirable Congress held at Salisbury in the autumn of 

 1865 do duty for two years, and postpone the Chippenham Congress 

 to the summer or autumn of 1867, when your Committee antici- 

 pates a full and very interesting meeting." 



Mr. Cunnington then gave a brief report of the bequest lately 

 made to the Society by Mrs. Wetherell, for which see the last 

 number of the Wiltshire Magazine, page 217. 



On the motion of C. Darby Griffith, Esq., M.P., the Report 

 was unanimously adopted. 



The meeting then proceeded to elect the officers of the Society 

 for the ensuing year. 



The Treasurer, F. A. S. Locke, Esq., was re-elected. 



The Secretaries, the Rev. A. C. Smith and Mr. Cunnington, 

 were re-elected. 



The following Local Secretaries were re-elected : — G. Alexander, 

 Esq., Westrop House, High worth ; N. Jar vis Highmore, Esq., 



