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original members, Rev. George Thompson, who was, to 

 within a very few years, a constant attendant at our meetings, 

 both winter and summer, and by his genial amiability and 

 politeness always helped to make them pass off pleasantly. 

 We must all feel greatly indebted to those who joined at 

 the first, 40 years ago, in founding this Club ; and a scheme 

 has been devised and will be submitted to you for placing 

 them in a position apart from all other members, and thereby 

 recognising, if only in a small degree, the obligation we owe 

 to them and to those other founders of the Club whom we 

 have lost. 



Rev. James Penny, though not an original member, joined 

 the Club in 1878, three years after its inauguration, and 

 was greatly interested in the natural history side of it, 

 especially in Geology. He had accumulated a large collection 

 of fossils and miscellaneous objects of interest which the Club 

 inspected, also partaking of his hospitality, in July, 1909. 

 The next oldest member of the Club is Rev. Canon Eldon 

 Bankes, whose membership dates from 1887, and whom the 

 older members amongst us will remember at our meetings in 

 Purbeck, where he was then living as Rector of Corfe Castle. 

 The last meeting that he attended was the one held at 

 Salisbury in August, 1910. Rev. W. Percy Schuster joined 

 in 1889 and was often amongst us. He will be missed by a 

 large circle of those whom he has benefited. Mr. Merrick 

 Head joined the Club in the same year, and his hospitality 

 will be remembered on the occasion of our visits to Portland 

 in July, 1890, and July, 1902. He was fond of Archeology 

 and had a good collection of books, &c., relating to William 

 Penn. Rev. Prebendary Linklater, D.D., who became a 

 member in 1894, lived much away from Dorset and rarely 

 attended our meetings. Mr. Joseph Whitby, who joined 

 in the next year, was frequently with us, and entertained the 

 Club on the occasion of its meeting at Yeovil in September, 

 1908. I should like also to mention with regret the loss 

 of Dr. F. D. Lys, a former member of the Club. Of 

 Honorary Members we have to lament the loss of three 



