xh-iii. THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



Both the Field Club and the Museum mourn this year the loss of 

 the eminent veteran geologist, the Rev. Osmund Fisher. His name 

 appears on the first Museum Council, in 1846. His connection with it, 

 nearly 70 years, therefore is of quite exceptional duration ; and he 

 retained a keen interest in the County up to the very last. By h 

 own bequest we now possess the two medals granted to him by the 

 Geological Society, viz., the bronze Murchison Medal in 1893, and the 

 gold Wollaston Medal in 1913, this, I believe, being the highest honour 

 awarded for geological work. They are placed in the Museum with 

 his very interesting model of the locality, shewing the Ridgway Fault, 

 which he was enabled to study when the railway to Weymouth was 

 made.* 



Colonel Sir R. Williams, Bart,, has presented us with an excellent 

 contour relief model of the greater part of Dorset, which is a valuable 

 acquisition illustrative of the physical features of the County 



The Numismatic Sectional Committee were- not able to 

 report any finds during the year 1914. 



The Restored Churches Sectional Committee reported, 

 through the Rev. A. C. Almack, that they had framed a 

 series of questions dealing with the subject, and that copies 

 would be placed in the hands of the collectors of information, 

 one for each deanery in the county. 



The President announced that the Cecil silver medal and 

 prize of 10 had been awarded to Mr. Ronald D'Oyly Good, 

 of High West-street, Dorchester, for his essay on Radium. 

 The trustees whose duty it was to make the award had 

 fortified their opinion of the merits of the essay by submitting 

 it to an expert, who had confirmed their judgment in all 

 respects. Owing to the unavoidable absence of Lord Eustace 

 Cecil, the medal and prize were presented to Mr. Good by 

 Canon Mansel-Pleydell, who congratulated the successful 

 competitor on the result of his work. 



On the motion of Captain Acland, which was seconded by 

 Mr. Barrow, Mr. Richardson was re-elected as President 

 for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Barrow proposed the re-election of the Rev. H. Pentin 

 as Honorary Secretary Mr. C. S. Prideaux seconded the 



* See Proceedings Field Club, Vol. X., pp. 55 and 69. 



