THE SECOND WINTER MEETING. XXXI. 



SECOND WINTER MEETING. 

 Tuesday, 7th February, 1910. 



Present : The President (in the chair), the Hon. Secretary, 

 Hon. Treasurer, Captain Elwes, and Mr. Ernest R. Sykes 

 (Vice-Presidents), the Hon. Editor, and 36 other Members. 



Two new Members were elected, and six nominations 

 received. 



AFFILIATION. An application for affiliation to the Club 

 was received from the Bournemouth Central Public Library, 

 and approved and granted, the affiliation fee being 10s. 



ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONGRESS. The HON. SEC. read an 

 abstract of the proceedings of the congress of Archaeological 

 Societies held in London last year, and attended by Mr. Nigel 

 Bond and Mr. E. A. Fry as delegates of the Dorset Field Club. 



MR. WOLLASTON, RECORDER OF DORCHESTER. Captain 

 ACLAND mentioned that he had been trying to discover some 

 particulars about Mr. C. B. Wollaston, after whom Wollaston 

 House and the road hard by were named. The inscription 

 cut on the memorial stone over the entrance to Shirley 

 Cottage, in the West Walks, read as follows : 



" To the Memory of CHARLTON BYAM WOLLASTON, Esquire, for 

 many years Chairman of the Quarter Sessions of the County of Dorset, 

 and Recorder of this Borough. Died Feb. 21st, 1840. Aged 75 years. 



" This entrance was erected by his affectionate nephew, William 

 Shirley. June, 1840." 



This Mr. Wollaston, continued Captain Acland, was Recorder 

 of Dorchester from 1806 until the passing of the Municipal 

 Reform Act, 1835, and was also Chairman of the Dorset 

 Quarter Sessions from 1824 to 1836. He was the son of Dr. 

 Charlton Wollaston, F.R.S., who died from blood-poisoning 

 contracted in opening a mummy. His mother married 

 secondly Mr. James Frampton, of Moreton. 



