XXX111. 



CERNE AND MINTERNE MEETING. 



THE FIRST OUTDOOR MEETING of the season was held at 

 Minterne and Cerne on Monday, June lyth. It was a perfect 

 day for the expedition, and a considerable number of members 

 and their friends availed themselves of the fineness of the 

 weather to attend the meeting, no less than seventy starting in 

 brakes from Dorchester for Minterne, the first place visited. It 

 had been proposed to stop at Bradford Peverell on the way, to 

 inspect the section, which had been cut, of a supposed aqueduct 

 for the supply of water to Dorchester in Roman times ; but, as 

 the course of it was then being surveyed, it was thought advi- 

 sable to delay the visit of the club until this had been done, and 

 the result made known. 



At Minterne Church the party were met and welcomed by the 

 Rector, the Rev. W. G. Barclay, and by Canon Ravenhill, the 

 Rural Dean, and Vicar of Buckland Newton, who had under- 

 taken to act as guide at Minterne. 



Before entering the church the Hon. Secretary, speaking from 

 the steps, said he was sorry that tho President could not be with 

 them ; and, as there was no Vice-President among the party but 

 himself, and he would be busy with his secretarial duties, he 

 asked their distinguished meteorologist, Mr. H. S. Eaton, to 

 act as President. Mr. Eaton had been President of the Royal 

 Meteorological Society for some years, and was thus well 

 acquainted with the duties. 



The Rev. Herbert Pentin, F.R.Hist.S., of Milton Abbas 

 Vicarage, Blandford, was proposed as a member of the Club. 



The Hon. Secretary announced the arrangements made pro- 

 visionally for the remaining summer meetings. 



The Club then proceeded to vote for the following candidates 

 for election, who were duly proposed and seconded on April 

 2Qth : Mr. F. D. Lys, Lome Villas, Rodwell. Weymouth ; the 

 Rev. W. E. H. Sotheby, Bere Regis Vicarage, Wareham ; and 

 Mr. G. E. J. Crallan, M.B., Bodorgan Manor, Bodorgan Road, 

 Bournemouth. To save the trouble of bringing the balloting 



