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NELSON M. RICHARDSON, B.A. 



(Read May 2nd, 1907.) 



OBITUARY. 



T is a great thing in a Club like ours that those who 

 manage it should have a certain number of friends 

 and supporters amongst its Members' on whom 

 they can rely for help in various ways in time of 

 need, either pecuniary or otherwise, and I am glad 

 to be able to say that during my connection with 

 it I have always had a certain number to whom I 

 had only to appeal to meet with an immediate 

 and kind response. One of these was one of 

 the few remaining original Members of the Club, Mr. William 

 Colfox, who has passed away from us since our last annual 

 meeting. He always took great interest in both our Club 

 and its kindred institution, the Dorset Museum, and has given 

 us much information on various subjects, chiefly connected with 

 archaeology. Another friend whose loss we have to deplore is 

 the Rev. O. M. Ridley, a frequent attendant at our meetings and 



