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and invited his company to admire the extreme beauty of the slender shafts 

 of Purbeck marble springing from floor to roof. From the Cathedral the way 

 was led to the cloisters, the broad paved quadrangular walk, pillared and with 

 groyned roof, bordering the square cloister garth, and thence the party entered 

 the Chapter House, familiar to many present as the scene of animated 

 debates at the Diocesan Synod. Canon Bourne invited admiration of the cne 

 central pillar of Purbeck marble, supplemented by slender columns of the same 

 material, supporting like the trunk of a tree the roof of this flawless and glorious 

 example of 13th Century architecture. The Canon referred to the carvings 

 of Old Testament subjects right round the walls as " quaint and in some cases 

 objectionable ; " but while all assented to the description " quaint," the word 

 " objectionable " did not seem anywhere justified. 



The Dean then led the way into the garden of the Deanery, 

 where Mrs. Page Roberts was awaiting the arrival of the Club, 

 and an enjoyable and very welcome tea was laid upon tables 

 under the trees. 



MEETING AND DINNER. 



At 7.15 a short business meeting was held at the hotel, 

 at which four new members were elected. Five more 

 nominations were announced, and (on the motion of Mr. 

 Alfred Pope) the sum of 5 14s. was voted to the Maumbury 

 Excavations Fund. 



At dinner the club had the pleasure of welcoming two 

 guests Canon Bourne and Dr. Blackmore, w r ho sat with 

 the President and Mrs. Richardson. To everybody's regret, 

 the Dean and Mr. Doran Webb were both unable to come. 



The party walked after dinner to the Salisbury and South 

 Wilts and Blackmore Museums, in St. Ann's-street, over which 

 they were shown by Dr. Blackmore, brother of the deceased 

 founder of the museum of that name, Mr. William Blackmore, 

 of Liverpool and London. 



The Blackmore Museum is famous throughout the scientific world for its 

 magnificent collection of prehistoric flint tools and weapons, gathered not only 

 in England, but from the Continent and indeed all quarters of the globe 

 " eoliths," palaeoliths, and neoliths many of them, celts, axes, hammers, 

 of great size and marvels of flint-knapping, and others, especially the neolithic 

 arrowheads, beautifully pointed, barbed, and tanged, wonders of delicate 

 workmanship. The arrangement of the collection is orderly and progressive, 

 facilitating study and comparison. 



