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By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 



(Read May 12th, 1914.) 



OBITUARY. 



|F those who have been taken from us during the 

 past twelve months I regret to say that I 

 have again a long list to record, including 

 two of the few Original Members of the Club 

 who remained to us, Rev. Canon Ravenhill 

 and Mr. George Galpin, both of whom were 

 frequently at our meetings and will be 

 greatly missed by those who have known 

 them for many years. When Canon Ravenhill was Vicar of 

 Buckland Newton, as he was for 47 years, nothing delighted 

 him more than to get the Field Club to visit his district 

 under his guidance and partake of his hospitality, so that 

 the older Members are indebted to him for much of their 

 personal knowledge of Central Dorset. Several papers by 

 him, chiefly on family history, will be found in our Proceed- 

 ings. His kindness of heart was well known, and may be 



