CONTENTS. 



PAQB 



List of O fficers of the Club since the Inauguration ... ... v. 



Rules of the Club ... ... ... ... ... vi. 



List of Officers and Committees ... ... ... ... 3ci 



List of Members ... ... ... ... ... acii. 



List of New Members elected since the Publication of Volume 



XXXVII. xxiii. 



Publications of the Club, and Societies and Institutions in Corres- 

 pondence with the Club ... ... xxiv. 



THE PROCEEDINGS or THE CLUB from May, 1916, to May, 1917 : 



FIBST WINTEB MEETING ... ... ... ... xxv. 



SECOND WINTER MEETING ... ... ... xxix 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING ... ... ... ... xxxv. 



The Hpn. Treasurer's Financial Statement ... ... ... xl. 



In Memoriam, The Late Rev. O. Pickard -Cambridge, M.A. ... xlu 



Anniversary Address of the President ... ... ... 1 



The Walks and Avenues of Dorchester, by Alfred Pope, F.S .A. ... 23 



Dorset Soldiers of the Tudor and Early Stuart Periods, by F. J. 



Pope, F.R. Hist. S. ... ... ... ... 34 



The Portland Reeve Staff and Court Leet, by Captain John E. 



Acland, F.S.A. ... ... ... ... ... 53 



Wessex Minsters, by the Rev. A. C. Almack, M.A. ... ... 69 



Leaden Coffin found at Cann, by H. St. George Gray ... ... 68 



Opening of the Round Barrow at Melcombe Bingham, by Major 



C. Ashburnham ... ... ... ... ... 74 



Returns of Rainfall in Dorset in 1916, by the Rev. H. H. Tilney 



Bassett, R.D. ... ... ... ... ... 81 



A Dorset Royal Peculiar, by the Rev. Canon J. M. J. Fletcher, 



M.A., R.D. ... ... ... ... ... 93 



Dorset Children's Doggerel Rhymes, by the Rev. Herbert Pentin, 



M.A. ... 112 



Phonological Report on First Appearances of Birds, Beasts, Insects, 



&c.,and the first Flowering of Plants in Dorset during 1916, 



by W. Parkinson Curtis, F.E.S. ... ... ... 133 



Index to Volume XXXVIII. 233 



