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By NELSON MOORE RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A. 

 (Read May Uth, 1918.) 



N presenting to you my 14th Annual Address I 

 should like in the first place to offer the 

 sympathy of both myself and the Club to 

 all those members who have suffered the 

 loss of relations and friends in the War ; 

 and I fear that there are few of us to 

 whom these bereavements have not come. 

 As regards the members who have passed 

 away from us, the oldest one is the Rev. 

 Webster Maunsell, who joined the Club in 1879, 

 and is best known for his work and life at Symondsbury, 

 near Bridj^rt, where he was Rector for 33 years, and where 

 I had the pleasure of meeting him on one of our excursions 

 many years ago. Mr. Hugh Carl Forrester was elected in 

 1893 and occasionally attended our meetings. Mr. W. Neville 

 Sturt joined us in 1898, and a paper by him will appear, I 

 believe, in the next volume (Vol. XXXIX.) of our Pro- 

 ceedings. He was much interested in archaeology, but 



