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done on several occasions. To Rev. William Miles Barnes, 

 the son of the Dorset Poet, the Club is deeply indebted, both 

 for his papers on various Archaeological subjects, especially 

 ancient records connected with Dorset and Church Bells, 

 and for his work as Editor of the Proceedings during several 

 years. The splendid series of photographs contained in 

 the volumes of the Dorset Photographic Survey, are due 

 mainly to his initiative and energy. A notice of his life and 

 work will be found in the last volume of our Proceedings, 

 so that I will not attempt to say more here. Mr. A. T. 

 Manger joined in 1890, and Mr. Thomas Shepheard in 1896. 

 .Rev. William Floyer Cornish often attended the meetings 

 of the Club and took much interest in its Proceedings. I 

 have lost another old friend in our distinguished Honorary 

 Member, Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., who has been more 

 amongst us than most of our Hon. Members, and whose 

 inteiest in our Club is shown by more than one Paper in 

 our volumes. He was, in the first place, a geologist, and 

 has done much work in Dorset and elsewhere as a member 

 of the Geological Survey. He was the leading authority on 

 fossil seeds and their evidence of former climatic conditions, 

 and is the author of numerous scientific books and papers. 

 His last work for the Club was in connection with the Elephant 

 Trench at Dewlish and its excavation, on which he contributed 

 a report to our Proceedings. He was one of those valuable 

 men who have travelled a little outside the beaten paths of 

 Geology, and investigated many subjects lying on its borders 

 which are usually neglected. He was elected in 1900. 



ZOOLOGY. 



The discovery of a rare slug (Limax tenellus) in a Scotch 

 pine forest in numbers, after it had been lost sight of for 56 

 years, and its subsequent occurrence in other pine forests, 

 is a striking proof of the fact that animals are often looked 

 upon as rare from ignorance of their habits, and when these 



