118 IN MEMORIAM DR. COLLEY MARCH. 



his term of office therefore corresponding with that of Lord 

 Eustace Cecil as President. Besides the excavations under- 

 taken by the Earthworks Committee of the Club under Dr. 

 March's Chairmanship, a general prehistoric survey of Dorset 

 was commenced under his auspices, and has up to the present 

 been carried out to a small extent in a few parishes, including 

 especially that of Portesham, in which the writer had the 

 pleasure and interest of assisting him. This was performed 

 with the thoroughness characteristic of his other works. All 

 prehistoric remains that could be found in the parish were 

 catalogued, measured, and noted down on the 6in. Ordnance 

 Map, and even so lately as last summer a few lynchets which 

 had been omitted at first were visited in spite of his growing 

 weakness, so as to complete the map. Dr. March had a 

 strong sense of humour by which he often added little touches 

 to relieve the somewhat dry character almost inseparable 

 from parts of a learned address, and sometimes much 

 amused his hearers by original remarks on his own and 

 other exhibits. He was always ready to discuss questions 

 on which others differed from him and to give consideration 

 to their arguments, though in many things he was most 

 tenacious of his own views. He was very fond of music ; 

 and though the writer never heard him play on any 

 instrument, he manipulated his mechanical organ-player 

 with skill, and, by some little contrivances of his own, so 

 modified his gramophone that it produced less of the 

 objectionable twang of that instrument than usual and a 

 much more agreeable sound. He was devoted to his garden, 

 in which he grew a great variety of plants and shrubs, 

 especially many which he had brought back with him from 

 abroad, and which are not often seen in this country, and 

 no one would have believed that so mature-looking a garden 

 could have been formed in the course of 20 years. 



Dr. March was born at Colchester in 1838, his father, the 

 Rev. Henry March, having been a Congregational Minister. 

 In 1860 he became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons 

 and a Licentiate of the Society of Apothecaries, securing 



