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DURING THE SEASON 1906-1907. 



WINTER SESSION, 1906-1907. 



THE FIRST MEETING of the Club for the Winter Session was 

 held in the Reading Room of the County Museum on Thursday, 

 December i3th, 1906, at 12.45. The President (Mr. Nelson M. 

 Richardson) took the chair, and over sixty Members were 

 present. 



THE MEMBERSHIP. Four persons were elected Members and 

 four proposed for membership. 



REPORT OF THE DELEGATE TO THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 

 Mr. Ernest Sykes' report was then read : 



" At the first meeting of the Corresponding Societies Mr. John Hopkinson, in 

 the chair, gave a brief address, pointing out that the present meeting was the 

 first at which both Affiliated and Associated Societies were represented. 



" Some discussion took place on the fares charged by the railway companies to 

 Members of societies attending meetings ; and it was stated that in Hampshire 

 the railway company issue to Field Club Members tickets at a reduced rate upon 

 their presenting a form signed by the Secretary. This might well be worthy the 

 attention of the officers of the Dorset Field Club. 



" Mr. Mill read a paper relating to the keeping of meteorological records, and 

 laid stress on the importance not only of making, but also of discussing, the 

 observations made. He called attention to the importance of seeing that the 

 instruments were of excellent quality, many observers spoiling their work by the 

 use of cheap instruments. The continuity of observations was of vital moment, 

 and this, he suggested, could be best obtained if the observers were under one 

 general control, that of some local society for preference. Of the necessary work 

 he laid stress on the need of observations of sunshine duration and rainfall ; that 

 the humidity should be recorded not only once a day ; and also called attention 

 to the methods of studying the upper air by means of kites. 



