FIRST WINTER MEETING. XXXV. 



WINTER SESSION, 1914-15. 



Notwithstanding the pre-occupations caused by the war, 

 there was a good attendance of the members of the Field 

 Club at the first indoor meeting on Tuesday, the 8th December, 

 at the Dorset County Museum. Mr. Nelson M. Richardson 

 took the chair at 12.30,being supported by five Vice-Presidents, 

 namely, the Lord Eustace Cecil (a past president), the Rev. 

 Herbert Pentin, Canon Mansel-Pleydell, Captain Elwes, and 

 Mr. Alfred Pope. 



The first business was a ballot for six candidates, all of 

 whom were duly elected as members. Nominations of two 

 additional candidates were announced. 



The PRESIDENT suggested that the hour of meeting at 

 the Museum should be changed from 12.30 to 12.45, as the 

 latter time would fit in more conveniently with the railway 

 services. Among those who would benefit by the alteration 

 was their Honorary Secretary, whose work they would desire 

 to make as easy as possible. The proposal was adopted. 



Mr. E. A. FRY reported that he had attended on behalf 

 of the Club the congress of Archaeological Societies in union 

 with the Society of Antiquaries of London, on the 26th June 

 last. A printed report of the congress had been circulated 

 with the notice convening the present meeting. 



The PRESIDENT then read the following report from the 

 " Restored Churches " sectional committee : 



The committee have to report that a meeting was held on July 29th 

 at Sherborne, at which five of the seven members were present. They 

 unanimously decided that an effort to compile a record of important 

 features lost in the alteration or restoration of our churches was 

 eminently desirable, and quite feasible if systematic methods were 

 adopted to procure the facts, and due time allowed. Among the 

 sources of information that were mentioned as available were the 

 Record Books which Bishop Wordsworth had instructed rural deans 

 to keep, the register of faculties issued, and the files of newspapars in 

 Dorchester Museum and elsewhere. In all such cases the kind co- 

 operation of rural deans, diocesan officials, architects, and others 



