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papers to our " Proceedings." Everyone will remember his 

 hospitality only two years ago in inviting the Club to join in an 

 excursion by steamer along the coast, and his untiring energy 

 and eloquent discourses on geology on this, as well as on many 

 other occasions. When we lose a man like this our feeling is 

 that we can never replace him. Mr. Eaton was also one to 

 whom we owed much, both on account of his scientific work and 

 his generosity. Probably the first meteorologist in the Kingdom 

 and a Past-President of the Royal Meteorological Society, he 

 devoted his energies for many years chiefly to the study of 

 Dorset rainfall, and published the results in our " Proceedings " 

 until ill-health compelled him to seek a successor. Mr. 

 Bosworth Smith has not been amongst us so long, but has more 

 than once delighted us by his chapters from bird-life and bird- 

 lore, which he has read to us at our meetings. Accounts of 

 these gentlemen will appear separately in our " Proceedings," so 

 I will not enter further into all that I might say about them. 

 Three other Members and two former Members have also passed 

 away from us, all of whom have distinguished themselves in one 

 way or another, and will be missed by those who survive them. 

 Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S., one of that distinguished family of 

 scientists to whom the world owes so much in the person of 

 Lord Lister, his brother, was well known for his researches on 

 the Mycetozoa, low forms of animal life, on which he read a paper 

 to our Club, published in Vol. XIII. of our " Proceedings." 

 Mr. Charles Hansford was a familiar figure at our meetings, was 

 always deeply interested in whatever was under discussion, and 

 more than once represented us at the British Association. He 

 will be remembered for his kindly disposition and his public- 

 spirited liberality to Dorchester, and specially by us for his 

 magnificent gift to the Dorset Museum, of which he was a Vice- 

 President, of the galleries which enable the contents to be 

 properly displayed. Mr. Thomas Steadman Aldis, second 

 wrangler and Smith's prizeman in 1866, was one of our scientific 

 Members specially interested in geology, and was, I think, only 

 prevented by a quiet and retiring disposition from giving us 



