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DURING THE SEASON 1904-1905. 



WINTER SESSION, 1904-1905. 



THE FIRST MEETING of the winter session of the Field Club 

 was held in the Reading Room of the Museum on Tuesday, 

 December i3th. The President (Mr. Nelson M. Richardson) 

 took the chair at 12.45. The meeting was very well attended. 



THE MEMBERSHIP. Six candidates were elected members 

 and ten proposed for membership. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATE TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 

 A short report, written by Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., who 

 attended the meeting of the British Association at Cambridge, 

 was then read : 



As delegate from your Club, I attended the two meetings of the Corresponding 

 Societies at the Cambridge meeting of the British Association. 



One of the subjects brought forward for consideration was the " conformity of 

 the publications of the Societies with certain bibliographical requirements." 

 Suggestions were made as to the adoption of a uniform size, proper indexing, 

 some careful editing, descriptive titles for the papers, and correct dates and 

 references both in the volumes and in reprints. Since the meeting I have looked 

 over the last volume of your " Proceedings," and, as I find that none of the 

 complaints made apply to the Dorset Field Club, there is no need to refer further 

 to this debate. 



The suggested alteration of the rule by which only Societies that publish can be 

 affiliated to the British Association was also discussed. It was pointed out that 

 certain Societies that publish nothing are doing equally good work in other ways, 

 such as the keeping up of local museums, and that this rule might compel 

 Societies to publish papers that were not worth printing. This matter, with 

 various other points, was referred to a small committee to be appointed jointly by 

 the Corresponding Societies Committee and the Council of the British Association, 

 the committee to meet from time to time in London. 



