XXXVi. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



arising therefrom." The PRESIDENT said that the 

 examining body (consisting of Lord Eustace Cecil and the 

 other two trustees, with the electrical expert to whose 

 judgment the essays had been submitted) were unanimous 

 in their opinion that W.O. Leeming's paper was the 

 best. With hearty congratulations he presented the medal 

 and prize. Colonel SPENCER- BROWNE, Commandant A.I.F., 

 Montevideo, spoke of the pleasure and pride which the 

 success of an Australian had given in the camp. 



The HON. TREASURER, Captain ACLAND, presented his 

 statement of accounts for the year ending 31st December, 

 1916. The amount received during the year had been 193 ; 

 and, owing to the Proceedings not having been yet published, 

 there had been practically no expenditure. 



The HON. SECRETARY, the Rev. HERBERT PENTIN, read 

 his report, which was as follows : 



Owing to there having been no summer meetings there is not much 

 to report and there are no secretarial accounts to present. The winter 

 meetings have been attended quite as well as could be expected under 

 war conditions. Several members, when sending in their resignations, 

 have added that they will join the club again after the war. The 

 chances are that they will profit nothing by this course. For when 

 they join again they will have to pay the entrance fee anew, and there 

 will be a missing volume or two in their set of the Proceedings, which, 

 if they wish to obtain, they will have to pay a full year's subscription 

 to the club for each volume. 



In the absence of the Hon. Editor, Mr. H. Symonds, it 

 was stated that the Volume of Proceedings for 1916, which, 

 owing to the shortage of labour caused by the war, had been 

 so long delayed, was almost ready, and would be very shortly 

 issued to the members. 



Captain ACLAND, as Curator of the Dorset County Museum, 

 read the following report of acquisitions made by the Museum 

 during the twelve months which had elapsed since the last 

 annual business meeting of the club (May, 1916 May, 

 1917) :- 



I propose to refer to-day to a few of the chief acquisitions during the 

 last 12 months, but not to attempt a description of all the specimens 



