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The Thirty -Seventh Annual Meeting. 



valuable collections which the Museum now contains, for the classi- 

 fication and re-arrangement of which from time to time the Society 

 is deeply indebted to Mr. B. H. Cunnington, one of the Hon. 

 Curators, and members of his family, who take a very active interest 

 and natural pride in this very important centre of Wiltshire archae- 

 ology and natural history. 



"The Committee has again to refer to the very important work 

 which is being carried on in the county by the President, General 

 Pitt- Rivers — work which is gradually elucidating a period of history 

 hitherto veiled in mystery, and work which can be carried on in no 

 part of the country with a better chance of success than in our own 

 county. The Society cannot but be most grateful to General Pitt- 

 Rivers for the costly and painstaking work he has so generously 

 taken in hand, and we hope the Wansdyke may yet yield results as 

 conclusive as those arrived at in the south of the county. 



"The Society desires to urge upon all owners of property in the 

 county upon which archgeological remains exist the great importance 

 of most carefully preserving such antiquities, and whilst we have as 

 our President " Her Majesty's Inspector General of Ancient Monu- 

 ments in Great Britain/'' we feel it our duty to make an especial 

 appeal to all who have it in their power to entrust to his care 

 treasures, the full historical and national value of which is some- 

 times but little appreciated or understood. No greater venerator of 

 antiquity exists than General Pitt- Rivers, and even in cases where 

 an object cannot be made, technically speaking, an " ancient monu- 

 ment," his advice as to its preservation will be given, and may with 

 confidence be acted upon. 



"Whilst congratulating the Society on the past, and expressing 

 an earnest hope and desire that it may flourish in the future in spite 

 of changes, your Committee appeals earnestly to the Members of 

 the Society in all parts of the county for their active co-operation. 

 We appeal to the Local Secretaries, and to any individual Members 

 who will take the trouble, to help the Society by increasing the 

 number of Members, by inducing some to join us who are not 

 Members but who show their interest in the general objects of 

 our Society by studying and sometimes publishing papers on 



