against £53 10s.). Our receipts on account of subscriptions and arrears 

 are, however, greater by about £5 ; but on account of sale of Proceedings 

 Ave have only received £6 odd, as against £12 in the previous year. By 

 my general statement you will see that if all our arrears and subscriptions 

 for the present year were duly paid we should have an income for the 

 year's expenses. This, with those subscriptions for the next year, 

 usually received early in the year, would have given us ample for the 

 defraying of the cost of a volume equal to any we have yet prDduced. As 

 it is, I fear it is hopeless to expect all these arrears to come in, and so we 

 must cut our coat a little more scanty to meet the diminished breadth of 

 cloth. The influx of new members last year was considerable, but we 

 also lost many by resignation and death. The total of members now on 

 oar list is 291, as against 277 last year." (Applause.) 



The balance sheet showed that the receipts for the year ending May 

 5th, 1893, amounted to £149 15s. 7d. and the payments to £148 17s. 3d., 

 leaving a balance in hand of 18s, 4d. Arrears due to the Club for the 

 yea'- 1892 amounted to £15, and for more than a year to £51, while the sub- 

 scriptions still due for 1893 reached the sum of £113 10s. If these assets 

 were taken into account and set off against the liabilities it would show 

 a balance in favour of the Club of £143 3s. 7d. 



President's Address.— The President then delivered his annivensary 

 address, which will be found following this article in V'ol. XIV. of 

 the Club's "Proceedings." After a graceful tribute to the memory of 

 the late Mr. Thomas Bond, he proceeded to give a long and learned 

 discourse on "The Genealogy of Plants duiing the Past yEons of the 

 World's History," ending with an account of antiquarian discoveries at 

 Rushmore, of the finding of some bones of a hesiver (Castor fber) nea,r 

 Blandford by Mr. Galpin, of certain geological discoveries by Mr. A. J. 

 Jukes Browne, of the Dover borings for coal and some of the fossil plants 

 found in them, of the occurrence of five birds, believed to be Bustards, 

 at Whatcombe, of the addition of six plants to the Dorset Flora, and of 

 the occurrence of several rare birds in Dorset. 



General Tennant proposed and Kev. Canon Ravenhill seconded a vote 

 of thanks to the President for his able and interesting address, after 

 Avhich the Club adjourned for three-quarters of an hour for luncheon, it 

 being about two o'clock. 



Keport of the Curator of the Museum.— After luncheon Mr. 

 H. J. Moule read the following account of the progress of the Museum 

 collections : — 



" In beginning a report on the Dorset Museum for the last twelvomontli 

 we will hrst take up the less essential sections of the institution, linishing 



