ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. XXXV. 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 

 Tuesday, May 14^, 1918. 



The annual general meeting of the Field Club was held in 

 the Reading Room of the County Museum at Dorchester 

 on Tuesday, May 14th. The President (Mr. Nelson M. 

 Richardson) was in the chair and was supported by three 

 Vice Presidents, the Rev. Herbert Pentin, Captain J. E. 

 Acland, and Mr. Alfred Pope. About twenty members of 

 the Club were present. 



Two candidates for membership were nominated. 



The PRESIDENT delivered his annual address, the fourteenth 

 since his first election to the chair. It will be found printed 

 on pages 1 19 of this volume. 



Mr. POPE proposed a vote of thanks to Mr. Richardson 

 for his learned, valuable, and interesting address ranging over 

 a vast field of research. This was carried with acclamation. 



The HON. SECRETARY read his report for the year 1917-8 

 which was as follows : 



There is very little to report this year. No meetings were held in 

 the summer, owing to the war, and the attendance at the winter meet- 

 ings lias been small. But the winter meetings have kept the Club 

 " carrying on," as papers have been read thereat which have formed 

 the bulk of the annual volume of Proceedings. The membership of 

 the Club continues to decrease little by little, and now stands at under 

 SCO. 



The HON. TREASURER then presented his account of the 

 receipts and expenditure during the past year. (It will be 

 found on page xli.). The balance sheet showed that the Club 

 was in a very satisfactory financial position, although he 

 regretted that, notwithstanding repeated applications, a 

 considerable number of members had not yet paid their 

 subscriptions. 



The HON. EDITOR read the following report : 



I very much regret the delay in the issue of the volume of the 

 Proceedings of the Dorset Field Club for the year 1917. It has been 

 mainly due to the pressure of other work which has prevented the 

 editor of the Phenological Report from sending in even a portion of 



