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as an irretrievable loss to this county. Many of us will remember 

 the Club's last visit to Glanvilles Wootton in iqoo and the 

 samples of the 377 drawers of British insects displayed by our 

 kind host. I have personally many pleasant memories of 

 expeditions in his company, by day and night, to Portland and 

 elsewhere after moths. 



The Rev. W. R. Waugh, F.R.A.S., was an astronomer of some 

 note, and was for years the head and editor of a band of more 

 than 40 observers of the planet Jupiter, a paper on which he 

 contributed to our Proceedings, as well as one on Nova Persei 

 (1901) and others. In spite of his great age his enthusiasm 

 for his science was undiminishd, and he had always something 

 interesting to tell us about the stars, the zodiacal light, or other 

 strange phenomena. His last communication was on the subject 

 of the lunar cross which was seen by Mrs. Richardson and my- 

 self, and illustrated in our last volume. What deep interest 

 he would have taken in the new dark spot which has just 

 appeared on Jupiter, in addition to the red spot he observed so 

 often. 



Miss Dansey's genial presence will be greatly missed by all her 

 friends. She took an enthusiastic interest in various branches of 

 archaeology, especially coins. 



Though the other members whose loss I record did not often 

 attend our meetings, they all took an interest in the Club, and 

 helped us in various ways. 



We have been indebted to the late Earl of Ilchester on more 

 than one occasion for allowing us to see his interesting house at 

 Melbury, and to visit his gardens and swannery at Abbotsbury. 

 Mr. Alfred Pass, a well-informed antiquarian, was a benefactor to 

 the County Museum, and would doubtless have taken more part in 

 the work of our Club had it not been for ill-health and remote- 

 ness of residence. Captain Payne-Gallwey, a man of high 

 attainments, and Sir Richard Howard had no leisure to give 

 more than a general support to the objects of the Club. 



I regret that I omitted last year to allude to the death of Dr. 

 Turner, of Poole, whom I remember in 1887 as our guide in that 



