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By THE CURATOR. 



(Bead May, 1910.) 



S there has been no systematic account of the 

 additions to the County Museum since the 

 death, in 1904, of our honoured curator. 

 Mr. Henry Moule, I venture to think that 

 members of the Field Club may be interested 

 by a brief statement showing the progress 

 made since that date, and the re-arrange- 

 ment rendered necessary by the erection of the galleries, 

 presented by the late Mr. Charles Hansford. 



In Mr. Moule's last report to the Field Club, he said, 

 " For many years it had been eagerly wished that more 

 Museum room could be found, and a complete severance 

 effected between Dorset and non-Dorset things. If galleries 

 were erected, all non-Dorset things might be moved into them 

 and the Dorset collections would have good room and a 

 chance of proper arrangement." How sincerely we all must 

 wish that he had been spared to carry this out himself. 



The Museum was open to the public on completion of the 

 galleries on 4th July, 1904, and the re-arrangement, which 



