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of the Mansel-Pleydell Medal in 1908 for an excellent 

 architectural essay. He has on more than one occasion 

 given valuable professional help gratuitously in connection 

 with the Field Club and Museum. Mr. Henry Duke joined 

 at the same time, and those who were present at the Lulworth 

 Castle Meeting in 1906 will remember how much the Club 

 was indebted to him on that occasion for his help and informa- 

 tion. I regret also to have to record the loss of Captain 

 Edward W. Williams, who was elected in 1892, and of a more 

 recent Member, Rev. P. B. Wingate, elected in 1910. 



Of our Honorary Members, a most distinguished man, 

 Alfred Russel Wallace, who was for some years after he 

 came to live in Dorset an Ordinary Member of our Club, 

 and was elected an Honorary Member in 1909, has passed 

 from amongst us. His life and work have been so fully set 

 forth in so many scientific and other publications, and also 

 in a short memoir by our Vice -President, Mr. E. R. Sykes, 

 which will be printed in the same Volume of Proceedings as 

 this Address, that I do not propose to enter into it here. 

 I will only add that we mourn his loss in common with 

 scientists all over the world, and feel that our Club has been 

 honoured by his connection with it. 



ZOOLOGY. 



In spite of the considerable agitation which has taken place 

 with regard to the spreading of disease by flies, I believe 

 that there is still little, if any, definite evidence that this is 

 the case in this country, though doubtless germs have been 

 found on the feet and bodies of flies. I refer to the mechanical 

 spreading caused by the germs becoming attached to the 

 flies through their resting on them, and being conveyed to 

 another person in this way. In regard to the other method 

 in which the germ lives inside the fly, and the patient is 

 infected by the fly's bite as in malaria, the evidence as regards 

 this country is extremely small, and infection in this way is 

 not much more than suspected. I think that a little more 



