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illustrated by a small incident which comes to my mind. 

 In his latter years, when he was rather infirm, he was our 

 host at a Central Dorset Meeting, and a lady complained 

 much of the steepness of a hill up which we were all walking. 

 Canon Ravenhill immediately, though apparently much the 

 less active of the two, offered her his arm and escorted her 

 to the top, doubtless with considerable exertion. During 

 his last years in Dorchester he was rarely absent from our 

 indoor meetings. Mr. Galpin always took a great interest 

 in the Club, especially in the Natural History side of it, and 

 has aided it in other ways, though he contributed no papers. 

 He was one of those intelligent and appreciative Members 

 who are always welcome. Another old Member whose loss 

 I regret is Mr. E. W. Young, Editor of the Dorset County 

 Chronicle, who joined us in 1893, and to whom we are indebted 

 for much kind and patient work in connection with our 

 Proceedings, in addition to the Index to the Volumes which 

 he compiled for many years and the help he afforded in its 

 early days to the Photographic Survey. Probably no one 

 who has not edited our Proceedings is aware of the amount 

 of work and often worry, not to mention correspondence, 

 entailed, of course, chiefly on the Honorary Editor, but also 

 in a minor degree on those who are responsible for the printing 

 and publishing of the Volume. During the nine years that 

 I edited the Volume, I always found Mr. Young most ready 

 to help in any difficulty, and I feel that our thanks are partly 

 due to him for the fine series of Proceedings that we have 

 upon our shelves. Mr. Frederick J. Barnes, who became a 

 Member in 1903, was interested in Natural History and 

 Geology, and has contributed papers to our Proceedings. 

 He also made use of his position as a quarry owner at Portland 

 to preserve anything that he met with of rarity or interest, 

 and many valuable specimens have been thereby saved 

 which would otherwise probably have been neglected or 

 destroyed. I regard this as one of the objects for which 

 our Club exists. Mr. Jem Feacey, who joined the Club in 

 1905, will be specially remembered amongst us as the winner 



