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town at the first meeting of the Club at which I had the honour 

 to be present. He possessed much general antiquarian and 

 natural history information, but had little time in which to 

 increase or impart it. Of those not actually members of our 

 Club, I would mention but two who have been taken from us. 

 One is Dr. W. T. Blanford, F.R.S., a man of high scientific 

 position as a geologist and zoologist, who has occasionally been 

 present at our meetings, and is doubtless, known personally to 

 some of us. The other is the Rev. S. J. Johnson, F.R.A.S., late 

 Vicar of Melplash, near Bridport, well-known for his writings on 

 eclipses and other astronomical subjects. 



The list in Vol. XXVI. shows that we have still amongst us 18 

 original members. From these we must now deduct two, one 

 being the late Mr. Dale, the other having been included by 

 mistake. On the other hand there are three original members 

 who are not so specified in the list, Mr. Darell (formerly Darell- 

 Stephens), Mr. W. J. Fletcher, and, lastly, one whose valuable 

 work in the Club I can, perhaps, appreciate better than anyone 

 else ; I mean my predecessor in the office of hon. secretary and 

 editor, the Hon. Morton J. Stuart-Gray, then known as Morton 

 J. Stuart. If you will look back at some of the earlier volumes 

 of Proceedings you will see how much we are indebted to him 

 for methods and ideas which have been acted upon by his 

 successors, and now form the groundwork of the rules under 

 which we exist. We have, therefore, at the present time 19 

 original members. 



I now proceed to mention a few of the more important 

 advances in science which have taken place since my last 

 address. 



ZOOLOGY. 



One of the most practical ways in which the science of zoology 

 has benefited the human race of late years has been in the 

 discoveries made in regard to the life history of those minute 

 organisms which are associated with various diseases both of 



