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IN DORSET DURING 1913. 



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By W. PARKINSON CURTIS, F.E.S. 



FOREWORD. 



Members of the Club will miss at the head of 

 these Notes the familiar name of our 

 esteemed President, who has for so many 

 years edited this part of our Report. At 

 his request I consented to relieve him of 

 the burden of his duties in this respect 

 in order to leave him freer for the other 

 duties of his office. I have, however, the 

 assistance of his notes as observer, and 

 perhaps may be permitted to express the 

 hope that the Club will have the benefit of his observations 

 for many years to come. I am not quite so well equipped as 

 he is either in regard to the topography of the western part 

 of our native county or in regard to botanical knowledge. 

 I shall endeavour to improve the former this summer by 



