PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. Ivii. 



very valued representative of the family with us as our 

 Treasurer. 



The tragic news of the death of Rev. C. W. H. Dicker, 

 which was broken to many of us as we assembled for our 

 Cerne Meeting, is fresh in our minds. Considering all that he 

 did for the Club in different ways, including his three years' 

 Editorship of our Volume and the varied knowledge which 

 he imparted to us both in papers and at our outdoor meetings, 

 it is difficult to believe that he was only a Member for eight 

 years ; but some men will do more in such a short period 

 than others in a lifetime. Rev. C. R. Baskett, who was also 

 suddenly taken from us, when occupied in the noble work of 

 starting in life in Canada those who would probably otherwise 

 have never had any opportunity of starting at all, was a 

 much older Member, having joined our ranks in 1886. He 

 had seen, like Mr. Dicker, much of other countries and had a 

 great taste for and knowledge of some branches of 

 archaeology. In his later years when settled at Monkton, 

 he generally attended the Winter Meetings of the Club and 

 took part in its doings. I regret to say that my list this year 

 also contains the names of six others of our Members, of 

 whom Miss Bessie Mayo, a Member since 1902, has 

 been, I think, the most amongst us, and Avas a 

 frequent attendant at our Meetings. The others are 

 Mr. H. B. Batten, who joined in 1889, Mr. W. E. 

 Brennand in 1885, Lt.-General J. P. Carr Glyn in 1898, 

 Mr. James Cull in 1890, and Mrs. Alfred Smith in 1906. 

 Since writing the above I deeply regret that I have to add to 

 this long list the names of no less than four prominent 

 Members of our Club. Sir John Charles Robinson, the 

 distinguished Art Critic and Collector, joined our ranks in 

 1890, and will be specially remembered by us as a Club in 

 connection with a meeting at Swanage, where he entertained, 

 I believe, the largest number that were ever present at a 

 Field Club luncheon and shewed us all the beautiful treasures 

 that his house contained. But we are all individually still 

 more indebted to him for a vast number of treasures in the 



