XXXVlil. SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



Tuesday, February 17th, 1920. 



The second Winter Meeting was held in the Reading Room 

 of the County Museum at Dorchester, on Tuesday, February 

 17th, at 12-30. The chair was occupied by the President 

 (Mr. Nelson Richardson), who was supported by four Vice- 

 Presidents, viz.: The Rev. Herbert Pentin, Captain John E. 

 Acland, F.S.A., Canon Fletcher, and Mr. Alfred Pope, F.S.A. 

 Thirty members of the Club were present. 



Ten candidates for membership were elected by ballot, and 

 the Hon. Secretary read a list of three additional nominations. 



ANNUAL CONGRESS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETIES. The 

 Report of His Honour J. S. Udal, F.S.A., one of the delegates 

 representing the Dorset Field Club, on the meeting held on 

 November 28th, 1919, was read. He stated that 



Sir Hercules Read, in his address on ' The Relation of Archaeological 

 Societies to Local Museums,' suggested the advisability of some closer 

 system of organisation than generally existed at the present time between 

 the various County Archaeological Societies and their local Museums. He 

 criticised at some length the work and duties of the curators of these local 

 museums, and referred to the varying capabilities of local archaeologists 

 entrusted with the carrying out of such work as excavations, between whom 

 and the local museums there should be much closer collaboration than is 

 usually the case. He mentioned the excavation work carried out in 

 connection with the Taunton Museum as affording the best instance of 

 what such work should be, and called attention to cases where important 

 Roman pavements had been endangered by the spreading roots of newly 

 planted trees. Mr. J. S. Udal expressed his disappointment that, in the 

 eulogium passed upon some of the western museums, the County Museum 

 at Dorchester had not been mentioned, situated as it is in the centre of 

 many important excavations, and containing many interesting finds. By 

 other delegates, the advisability was suggested of getting children to take 

 an interest in their local antiquities, as had been done at Salisbury with 

 marked success. Sir Hercules Read agreed that this would be most helpful. 

 That there was a great and increasing interest taken in such matters was 

 shown by the large number of people visiting ancient monuments. 



