xliv. THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



this past year there is nothing brilliant to report in the Secretary's department. 

 Partly through the Club's instrumentality, the marriage registers of Dorset are to 

 be published, gradually, in Phillimore's well-known county series. And 

 perhaps during the coming year arrangements may be made for affiliating the 

 minor natural history and antiquarian societies of Dorset to the central County 

 Field Club. The members of the Executive have been revolving the subject in 

 their minds for several months, but, of course, the whole matter would be 

 submitted to the Members of the Field Club before any real action is taken ; and 

 I only mention the subject now as some premature, yet pleasing, paragraphs 

 bearing thereon have appeared in some of the Dorset newspapers. To unify the 

 natural histoiy and antiquarian work which is being done in the county seems to 

 me to be a thing much to be desired, provided that it can be done without 

 amalgamating the several clubs. I should also like to call attention to the 

 sixpenny pamphlet which the Club has published this year. The Assistant 

 Secretary has compiled a list of the past and present officers of the Club, its 

 Members, its rules, its publications, and a general index of the papers, &c., 

 published in its twenty -five volumes of 'Proceedings,' and every Member should 

 secure a copy ere it is out of print." 



The PRESIDENT expressed the Club's great appreciation of Mi'. Pentin's services 

 during the year. They had good reason to be thankful that they were so 

 fortunate as to obtain so excellent a successor to their late Secretary, Dr. Colley 

 March. 



Captain ELWES then, in accordance with the notice he had 

 previously given, proposed that the Club membership should be 

 limited to 400. The proposition was seconded by Dr. CRALLAN, 

 but, as it failed to obtain the support of three-fourths of the 

 Members present at the meeting, as required under Rule 21, 

 the motion was lost. 



The Hon. Editor's report followed : 



" The new volume is making progress. There are already in type : By the 

 Hon. Secretary, a paper on ' Liscombe Chapel ' ; articles, by Mr. C. S. Prideaux 

 and Mr. Gray, on 'The Barrow Excavations at Martiustown " ; on 'Spiders,' 

 by Mr. Cambridge ; on ' Dorset Plants,' by Mr. Liuton. The latter will be an 

 appendix to Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's valuable work on the subiect. There will 

 follow : ' The Xaturalist iu Australia,' by the Rev. C. W. H. Dicker ; a continu- 

 ation, concluding the list, of ' Church Goods, 1552 ' ; and I hope to receive 

 Canon Raven's monograph on ' The Church Bells of Dorset ' in time for this 

 year's volume. There will also be ' Poems in the Dorset Dialect,' by the late 

 Rev. W. Barnes ; and a paper on ' The Cross-legged Effigies in Dorset,' by Mr. 

 Sidney Heath ; and a note by Rev. H. S. Solly, on ' The Landslip at Lyme Regis.' 

 Club notes will be continued, and the ' Rainfall Returns ' and ' First Appear- 

 ances,' as usual. A new feature in the book will be a series of the Chartularies 



