xlli. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



Tuesday, May 4th, 1920. 



The Annual General Meeting of the Field Club was held in 

 the Reading Room of the County Museum, at Dorchester, on 

 Tuesday, May 4th, at 12-30 p.m. The President (Mr. Nelson 

 M. Richardson) was in the chair, and was supported by four 

 Vice- Presidents the Rev. Herbert Pentin, Captain John E. 

 Acland, F.S.A., Captain G. R. Elwes and Mr. Alfred Pope, 

 F.S.A. About thirty members of the Club were present. 



Three candidates for membership were unanimously elected 

 by ballot, and six additional candidates for membership were 

 nominated. 



The PRESIDENT delivered his annual address, the sixteenth 

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

 on pages 1-21 of this volume. 



MR. ALFRED POPE, in proposing a hearty vote of thanks to 

 the President, said that his address, like the fifteen which Mr. 

 Richardson had given in former years, had covered a wide 

 range of subjects with much interesting detail. The members 

 of the Club were fortunate in having so competent and so 

 accomplished a President. The vote was seconded by CAPTAIN 

 ELWES and carried with acclamation. 



PRESENTATION OF THE MANSEL-PLEYDELL MEDAL. When 

 presenting the Mansell-Pleydell medal, together with a prize 

 of 10, to Mr. Vere L. Oliver, F.S.A., of Greenhill House, 

 Weymouth, for his paper on " Tudor Houses in Dorset and 

 the Contemporary Life within them," Captain Elwes compli- 

 mented Mr. Oliver on the thorough way in which the essay 

 had been prepared, on the lucidity of its expression, and on its 

 exceptional value as a contribution to the literature of the 

 Club and of the County. The PRESIDENT congratulated Mr. 

 Oliver on his success in a year in which there had been 

 considerable more competition than usual. He added that 



