THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. XXxi. 



plan in association with worked flints and a button of Kimmeridge coal, but no 

 trace of gold, or bronze, or iron. It was an Aryan people who made their 

 appearance in Europe about 7,000 years ago. At first knowing nothing of 

 metals, they subsequently learned the use of bronze. At first gathering acorns 

 and hazel nuts, and storing them in earthen jars, they afterwards cultivated 

 barley, which they ground in querns, and grew flax, which they wove into 

 fabrics. The remains of this people lie in the round barrows of Britain and in 

 the crumbled pile dwellings and tcrre mare of Europe. And we suddenly see, as 

 by a flash of celestial light, that the lynchets of Dorset, as well as the terraces of 

 Marseilles, represent a cultural tradition of extreme antiquity ; and that the 

 charred fabric of the Martinstown barrow has its counterpart in the carbonised 

 linen of the prehistoric refuse heaps of Italy. 



The Hon. Secretary also reported that he had received the 

 total amount of 2 1 all but half-a-crown towards the cost of the 

 plan and coloured drawings of the Roman tesselated floors at 

 Fifehead Neville, which Mr. Goater, of Bournemouth, had under- 

 taken to prepare. The accounts are printed on another page. 

 They had been audited by Mr. B. Colville, of the Wilts and 

 Dorset Bank, Weymouth, to whom he proposed a vote of thanks. 



THE HON. TREASURER'S REPORT. Captain ELWES said : 



He had great pleasure in announcing that the financial progress of the Club 

 during the past year had been most satisfactory, so much so that, believing 

 himself to be the only member of the Executive actually in csse, he had ventured 

 to take advantage of his position to invest a certain sum in Consols, as it seemed 

 that the time had come to put some of their money in reserve in a permanent 

 security. He had, therefore, bought 100 Consols at 89 15s., including costs. 

 Besides that they had 52 at the bank, and a further sum of 7 he had in hand. 

 A cheque for 107 18s. 3d. had been drawn in payment for the last volume of 

 " Proceedings." He had passed the accounts through the hands of an official in 

 the bank, and had a letter from him certifying their correctness. He had to 

 thank members of the Club for their promptitude in payment, and he hoped that 

 the form which he had had printed, whereby they could instruct their bankers in 

 the future to pay their subscriptions to the credit of the Club as they became due, 

 would prove a convenience and save trouble. 



THE HON. EDITOR'S REPORT. THE BELLS OF DORSET. 

 In the absence of the Hon. Editor of the Club's (i Proceedings," 

 the HON. SECRETARY read the following report which had been 

 submitted : 



It was hoped that the last volume of Transactions issued would have been 

 ready for publication by the 1st of January. That hope, on account of some 



