XXXI. 



WINTER SESSION. 



THE SECOND WINTER MEETING was held on February i8th. 

 The President was in the chair, supported by four of the Vice- 

 Presidents. A fairly representative gathering of Members 

 attended the meeting. 



THE Loss OF DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS. The PRESIDENT, 

 before the business of the meeting was begun, referred with deep 

 regret to the great loss which the Club had suffered since their 

 last meeting by the death of two of their most distinguished and 

 valued Vice-Presidents, Mr. Wilfrid H. Hudleston, past President 

 of the Geological Society, and Mr. Henry Storks Eaton, past 

 President of the Royal Meteorological Society. They had read 

 obituaries of both of them in the Press, and he hoped that a 

 notice of each would appear in the next volume of the Club's 

 " Proceedings." They also regretted the death of Mr. Charles 

 Hansford, an old and valued Member of the Club and a Vice- 

 President of the County Museum. He proposed that, on behalf 

 of the Club, votes of sympathy should be passed and forwarded 

 to Mrs. Hudleston, Mr. Alfred Eaton (Mr. Eaton's brother), and 

 the Rev. F. W. Galpin (nephew of Mr. Hansford). 



THE MEMBERSHIP. Three new Members were elected, and 

 eight new nominations were announced. 



CONGRESS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. The HON. SEC. 

 read a short digest which he had prepared of the matters of most 

 interest to Dorset people occurring in the report of the igth 

 Congress of Archaeological Societies held in London on July 8th. 

 The Dorset Field Club was represented at the Congress by Mr. 

 Nigel Bond, M.A. (Secretary of the National Trust for the 

 Preservation of Places of Beauty and Historic Interest). Details 

 were given of the commissions already granted for scheduling 

 and preserving the ancient monuments of Scotland and Wales, 

 and of the petition sent to the Prime Minister praying that a 

 similar commission might be appointed for England. Mr. A. G. 

 Chater, the ne\vly-elected Secretary to the Earthworks Com- 

 mittee, stated in his report that the important fortress of Maiden 



