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success the very important excavations at Maumbury Rings, 

 and more recently the excavations at the Dewlish Elephant 

 Trench, on which subject what has proved to be the last 

 paper written by him for our Proceedings is published in our 

 Volume XXXVI. lately issued. What I think he loved best 

 to study was the mythical lore of the past, especially perhaps 

 that of Scandinavia, but he was very versatile, and in the 

 last year or two I was helping him to map the prehistoric 

 monuments and other work in his parish of Portesham as 

 part of a survey which it is hoped that the Club may in 

 course of time carry out for the whole county. He also took 

 great interest in Geology and Natural History generally, and 

 brought much evidence together to prove that the ice in the 

 glacial period extended over Dorset. As an In Memoriam 

 notice appears in the present volume, I will not do more 

 here than allude to his work before he came to this neighbour- 

 hood on retiring from his profession, but he was then well 

 known in the Antiquarian world. In him I feel that I, with 

 others, have lost a valued friend, as well as a member of the 

 Club whom it would be hard to replace. Though Mr. Edward 

 Cunnington ceased to be a member many years ago, having 

 retired from the Club the first time in 1885 and the second 

 time in 1902, he was associated with us for so long, and 

 was also one of our few surviving original members, to whom 

 we should always feel specially grateful, that I could not do 

 otherwise than include his name in my list. The energy 

 and enthusiasm with which he made his antiquarian investi- 

 gations, chiefly with the use of the spade, and also maintained 

 the conclusions he drew from them, are still fresh in the 

 memories of all those who knew him, and I can only hope 

 that some of this energy and enthusiasm may descend upon 

 the present members of our Club and cause them to work 

 seriously at one of the many branches which it comprises 

 within its limits. Most of the results of Mr. Cunnington's 

 excavations in barrows and elsewhere are deposited in our 

 Museum, which is indebted to him for some of its best 

 antiquarian treasures. If there was a barrow to be opened 



