In 



REV. WILLIAM BARNES, B.D. 



Since October 7th, 1886, when we were suddenly called upon 

 to mourn for our old friend and staunch member of the Dorset 

 Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, the Rev. WILLIAM 

 BARNES, B.D., so much has been written and said and published 

 about him that little, at any rate, little new, can now be said ; 

 scarcely a periodical or journal has been silent ; all have been 

 necessarily and deservedly eulogistic. Some, it has appeared to me> 

 have placed his claim to public notice on somewhat insufficient 

 grounds, and others on, as it were, the side issues rather than on 

 the main ones of his long life. It would be, however, quite out of 

 place in our Proceedings to criticise here what has been said and 

 published. Want of space, if nothing else, would prevent it. A 

 very characteristic and faithful portrait of Mr. BARNES forms a 

 frontispiece to our annual volume. As regards this portrait, it 

 may be remarked that this has been designedly chosen rather 

 than another, which, while it, no doubt, faithfully gives Mr. 

 BARNES' general appearance according to the costume adopted late 

 in life, was by no means characteristic of the man known to those 

 who had enjoyed his friendship in earlier days, and had watched the 

 development of his simple but strong and almost unique character 

 under the more usual garb of the day. What it is proposed to 

 give here as an accompaniment to our frontispiece will consist 

 of such biographical details as may be necessary for the 

 information of those who would hereafter know who Mr. BARNES 

 was, whence he came, and the more salient points of his life. A 



