llV. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



The next volume will include accounts of the excursions to Portland, 

 Povverstock and Portesham, with reports of the Winter Meetings and of 

 to-day's Annual Business Meeting. It will contain the usual Rainfall 

 Statistics and Notes, and the Report of the Phenological Editor. There 

 will also be the following papers: The Presidential Address; with Mr. 

 Richardson's " Notes on a few of the Insects and Plants of Portland," and 

 a paper by him on " Portland, extracted from Peter Mundy's Travels in 

 7655." " Eggardon Hill," by Rev. H. Shaen Solly; " The Hellstone," by 

 Mr. Vere Oliver ; " The Apple Tree Wassail," by Mr. W. O. Beament ; 

 " The Church Screens of Dorset," by Mr. E. T. Long; " The Founding of 

 Dorchester, Massachusetts, and the Rev. John White," by Capt. Acland; 

 and" Dorset Gulleries," by Rev. F. L. Blathwayt. 



It is to be regretted that the cost of production has so materially 

 decreased the number of illustrations as well as the size of the volumes. 

 But to a certain extent this must continue unless the rule is altered which 

 limits the numbers of the Club, and there can be a large addition to the 

 membership, or unless, which appears to be inadvisable (although it has 

 been carried out by the Derbyshire and, I think, some other societies), the 

 amount of the annual subscription is raised. 



DORSET PHOTOGRAPH^ SURVEY. MR. C. J. CORNISH-BROWNE, 

 Director of the Survey, reported that 



during the past year, 353 photographs had been added to the collection. 

 Two of these were by Capt. Acland, 24 by Mr. Ridley, and 140 by himself, 

 whilst the remaining 187 were photographs which had long ago been 

 mounted on Manilla sheets for binding into volumes, but which he had 

 remounted on mounts in general keeping with the collection. The remain- 

 ing photographs, 568 in number, had, with the unanimous consent of the 

 members of the Committee, been removed from the volumes, remounted 

 and placed in the boxes. The whole collection was now boxed together 

 and arranged under Parishes. The expenses for the year had amounted 

 to 6 18s. Towards these 5 had been granted by the Club at a summer 

 meeting. The deficit had been met privately. For the purpose of the 

 survey, the county had been divided into 12 areas, corresponding with the 

 12 Poor Law Divisions. Representatives were urgently needed for the 

 Blandford, Beaminster, Shaftesbury, Sturminster and Sherborne Divisions. 

 Additions to the collection of photographs were asked for. The collection, 

 though perhaps little considered at the present time, will be of great 

 interest to the future generations. 



The PRESIDENT said that Mr. Cornish- Browne had done 

 admirable work during the past year, and proved a worthy 

 successor to the Rev. W. Miles Barnes, who started the survey. 



