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Congress had been sent to every Member of the Club. Captain 

 ACLAND, alluding to that part of it which dealt with Church 

 Restoration, made some remarks on the desirability of getting 

 expert guidance whenever such work was taken in hand. It 

 was unanimously agreed that Canon Mansel-Pleydell should 

 be asked to bring this point before the Diocesan Church 

 Building Association. 



THE CARE OF " ANCIENT MONUMENTS. "EARTHWORKS 

 AND STONE CIRCLES. The HON. SECRETARY reported the 

 receipt of letters from the Hon. Sir Schomberg McDonnell, 

 K.C.B. (Secretary of H.M. Office of Works), and from the 

 Dorset County Council in regard to co-operation for the 

 preservation of " ancient monuments." The Rev. C. W. H. 

 DICKER, secretary of the Earthworks Committee of the Club, 

 said that the committee had drawn up a circular which they 

 wished to have authority to issue to all the clergy of the 

 county and others interested in the matter, calling attention 

 to the provisions of the Act, and seeking their assistance in 

 the first place in preparing a list of all the works that they 

 could find still existing, together with the names of the 

 owners, and then communicating with the owners with the 

 view of their availing themselves of the provisions of the Act. 

 The HON. SECRETARY observed that land-owners ought to 

 welcome this Act, for while it in no way infringed their rights 

 of property, it enabled any ancient remains on their estates 

 to be duly preserved. Already Maiden Castle, the stone 

 circle at Kingston Russell, and the Nine Stones at Winter- 

 borne Abbas had been taken over by the Office of Works under 

 the provisions of the Act. Mr. POPE proposed that the 

 Earthworks Committee be authorised to print and circulate 

 their report at a cost not exceeding 5, and this was carried 

 unanimously. 



EXHIBITS. Mr. E. A. RAWLENCE exhibited some roughly- 

 worked flints from the gravel beds of Blackmore Vale. The 

 PRESIDENT exhibited an English 14th or 15th Century earthen- 

 ware garden watering-pot, and the rose of another of slightly 

 later date, and also a valuable early 16th Century illustrated 



