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some of those who have more recently joined us, and taken part in 

 our proceedings, as the Rev. Edward Luard of Winterslow, and 

 others. 



" With regard to finance, your Committee is able to report satis- 

 factorily, the funds now in hand showing an increase on last 

 year. 



" With reference to our publications during the past twelvemonths : 

 although but one number of the Magazine has been issued, another 

 (being the thirty-sixth number, and concluding the twelfth volume) 

 is far advanced towards completion, and will shortly be in the 

 hands of members : while the second part of the account of the 

 Blackmore Museum has been published and distributed amongst the 

 members of our Society, a work to which your Committee confidently 

 calls special attention, as of very great archseological interest and 

 merit, and for this the Society is entirely indebted to the pen of 

 Mr. Stevens. 



" The Museum and Library of the Society have been increased 

 by some few donations, not however to any noteworthy extent : so 

 that whilst the Committee heartily thank the donors for their con- 

 tributions, they desire again to impress upon the members generally 

 how great is the value of specimens when collected and classified in 

 a Museum : as contrasted with the comparatively little interest 

 which attaches to isolated objects, when retained in private hands; 

 which moreover are often laid aside and lost, and whose history is as 

 frequently forgotten. Your Committee therefore would again 

 earnestly invite those to whom such specimens are from time to 

 time brought, to deposit them, either as a gift or as a loan, in our 

 permanent Museum. 



" The Committee desires in conclusion to entreat the continued 

 co-operation of its members in all parts of the county. Notwith- 

 standing the exertions which this Society has made during eighteen 

 years, there is still in Wiltshire a vast amount of Archaeological and 

 Natural History matter hitherto untouched : and as it is only by 

 the help and cordial support of its many members that the work of 

 the Society can be satisfactorily carried on, your Committee con- 

 fidently appeals to you for individual research, investigation, and 



