XXXJV. FIRST WINTER MEETING. 



WINTER SESSION, 1919-20. 



The FIRST MEETING of the Club for the Winter Session 

 was held in the Reading Room of the County Museum, 

 Dorchester, on Tuesday, December 9th, 1919, at 12-30 p.m. 

 The President, Mr. Nelson Richardson, took the chair, and 

 was supported by four of the Vice-Presidents: the Rev. Herbert 

 Pentin (Hon. Secretary), Capt. J. E. Acland (Hon. Treasurer), 

 Canon Fletcher (Hon. Editor), and Mr. Alfred Pope, F.S.A. 

 About twenty members of the Club were present. 



Five candidates for membership were elected by ballot, and 

 ten additional candidates w r ere nominated. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION. MR. ALFRED POPE stated 

 That he had attended the 87th meeting of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, held at Bournemouth, on Sept. 8th to 12th, as 

 representative of the Field Club, on the Conference of Delegates of 

 Corresponding Societies. Both the Conference of Delegates and the 

 Meeting of the Association were largely attended and most interesting. 

 In his Presidential Address at the Conference, on ' Roads and the History 

 of Locomotion,' Lord Montagu of Beaulieu advocated the placing of all 

 public roads, whether main or district, under one and the same authority, 

 with a view to the bye-roads in the agricultural districts being kept in 

 better repair, to the advantage of those residing in the country. Much 

 interest was evinced in Dr. I. S. Owen's paper on ' The Atmospheric 

 Pollution of Towns,' and in that of Mr. de Carle Salter on ' The Measure- 

 ment of Rain.' . At the Inaugural Meeting of the Association, held in the 

 Pavilion of the Winter Gardens, the Hon. Sir Charles Parsons, K.C.B., 

 D.Sc., F.R.S., in his most comprehensive and learned Presidential address, 

 dealt with ' Engineering before and after the war,' ' the Science of War,' 

 Submarines, Air Ships, 'Electricity as the future source of power and heat,' 

 ; Water power for generating Electricity,' and ' Our future supply of Coal ' 

 upon which we had hitherto depended almost exclusively for heat and 

 source of power. As President of the Botanical Section, Sir Daniel Morris, 

 K.C.M.G., whom we have the honour of numbering amongst our Vice- 

 Presidents, delivered an admirable address, which dealt with ; the progress 

 of Science as affecting the leading botanical enterprises of the empire.' 

 These are now of the utmost importance in the work of reconstruction 

 after the war. 



