XXXVI. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



his notes for the year 1916 until quite recently. As, however, he informs 

 me that his Report for 1917 "is well under way," and as, practically 

 the whole of the other matter is in hand, I shall be disappointed if 

 the volume for 1918 is not published in much better time. The new 

 volume will contain papers on " New Species of Birds observed in 

 Dorset since the publication of Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's ' Birds of 

 Dorset ' in 1888," by the Rev. F. L. Blathwayt ; " Some Unrecorded 

 Deans of Wimborne," by the Editor, Canon Fletcher ; " Notes on the 

 coins believed to have been struck at Sandsfoot Castle and Weymouth, 

 in 1643-44," by Mr. Henry Symonds ; " Pipe Leases of Dorset," by 

 Mr. E. A. Fry ; " Abbot Bere's Terrier of the Marnhull Estate," by 

 Canon Mayo.* The volume will also contain the official accounts of 

 the two winter meetings and of the annual meeting of the Club, with 

 returns of Rainfall in Dorset in 1917, and the Pheno logical Report 

 on first appearances of Birds, Reptiles, and Insects, &c., and the first 

 flowering of Plants in the County during the past year, with other 

 Nature Nojtes. 



The PRESIDENT stated that, owing to the prohibition 

 of photography during the war, the work of the Dorset 

 Photographic Survey is under suspension. 



Captain ACLAND read the following notes on " The Principal 

 Additions to the Dorset County Museum during the year, 

 May, 1917 May, 1918." 



Although I have nothing to refer to on this occasion of such interest 

 as the original MS. of Barnes' Dorset Poems acquired last year, the 

 Museum collections have been enriched by some exhibits well worthy 

 of notice, which I will briefly describe. 



At the death of the Rev. W. Cornish, for many years Rector of 

 Winterbourne Steepleton, and a Member of the Dorset Field Club since 

 1902, his executors found in the Rectory a Bronze Axe -head and a 

 Stone Hammer-head, both excellent types of their class, and both 

 found on the glebe land, and therefore of special local interest. They 

 were submitted to Mr. Reginald Smith at the British Museum, who 

 kindly described them for me in the following words : " The Bronze 

 Celt is almost the earliest form m metal, and shows the beginnings of 

 the stop -ridge. The grooving on both faces is no doubt meant as 

 ornament, and the lozenge -shaped facets on the sides are fairly common, 

 but in England the type is not nearly so often found as the palstave, 

 or the socketed celt. The quartzite hammer, or Macehead, has the 



* Canon Mayors valuable paper is unavoidably postponed until 

 a later Volume. EDITOR. 



