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received under this head consisted of arrears of unpaid subscriptions. 

 The amount received from admissions to the Museum shows a con- 

 siderable increase owing to the reduced price charged for entrance, 

 viz., 3d. The general balance shows an increase as compared with 

 the previous year. There is still outstanding about £70 of sub- 

 scriptions and arrears, due 1st January last. 



" The Committee have had this under consideration, and they 

 would urge upon Members that if they would give a standing order 

 to their bankers to pay their subscriptions when due, viz., 1st 

 January in each year, that much trouble would be saved to the 

 officers of the Society and to themselves. The Financial Secretary 

 would supply a form for this purpose at any time on application. 



" The concluding number of volume xxiv. of the Magazine was 

 issued last spring, and with it concluded the labours of Mr. Smith 

 as Editor. All will concur in the opinion that his work has been 

 crowned with success to the last. With volume xxiv. is issued a 

 general index to the last eight volumes, for which the Society is 

 indebted to the laborious and painstaking efforts of a valued Member 

 of the Committee, the Rev. W. C. Plenderleath. The first number 

 of vol. xxv. was issued quite recently, and it is hoped that it has 

 reached the hands of every Member whose subscription has been 

 paid up to 30th June. 



" A list of donations to the Library and Museum is published 

 with each number of the Magazine. The thanks of the Society are 

 due to all those who wisely consider that books relating to county 

 history, whether past or contemporary, and objects of interest of all 

 kinds which throw light on the study of the county are best placed 

 in the Library or Museum of the Society. At the same time the 

 energies of the Curators are sometimes severely taxed in the en- 

 deavour adequately to display to view the many treasures which are 

 offered to the Society, and it must be remembered if we are sometimes; 

 forced to decline donations that the space available is so circumscribed 

 that it becomes increasingly necessaiy to confine ourselves to books 

 and objects referring directly to the history of our own county. 



" It is hoped that many Members of the Society will take the 

 opportunity which our visit to Devizes affords of inspecting the 



