XXVI. IN MEMORIAM. 



during his scholastic life before the regular school work began he 

 gave his scholars a short lecture on some natural history or scientific 

 subject. Each scholar had to take down in writing a proposition, 

 generally embracing one point only, on which the lecture was 

 based. Notes were to be taken upon the lecture, which was 

 always illustrated by objects or experiments, and an examination 

 upon it was subsequently made. I have still in my possession the 

 MS. notes of these lectures during the whole of the two years that 

 I was a pupil of Mr. BARNES'. He was among the founders of the 

 County Museum, and stood firmly by it through evil and goodreport 

 until it bloomed into its present fair and prosperous form; and at once 

 on its inauguration in 1875 became a member of the Field Club, 

 frequently attending the Field Meetings, even down to a very 

 recent period, and, whenever called upon to do so, always con- 

 tributed his quota to the proceedings of the day in his habitually 

 retiring, but simple, clear, and concise way. These contributions 

 were usually of an Antiquarian kind, as are all those contributed 

 in writing to the Field Club's published proceedings. I have 

 given these contributions in a separate list at the end of the 

 general list of his works ; they are 14 in number and are mostly 

 concerned with topics at the moment before the club. The last 

 paper contributed to our Proceedings was in September, 1885, on 

 " Pilsdon," and is published in vol. vii., p. 102. Mr. BARNES was 

 then in too feeble a state to attend outdoor meetings, and I 

 myself had the pleasure of reading (in his absence) his last words 

 to us ; and the very last words (with which the paper concludes) 

 suggest to us a bit of practical work, which, I hope, some one 

 among us may one day carry out. He was speaking of the 

 curious parallelogram on the area of the Great Earthwork at 

 Pilsdon, and, after hazarding a guess on the subject, concludes 

 with these words " I wonder what is under its turf?" and I 

 will now add " Will not some one institute a search and let us 

 know ?" 



And now, ill done indeed I fear, but yet, so far as I have been 

 able to do it, my task is done. I should have liked to dwell 



