122 IN MEMORIAM REV. WILLIAM M. BARNES. 



which he developed and amplified. He was made a Vice- 

 President in 1904. Perhaps the most lasting and generally 

 interesting work carried out by him is contained in the fine 

 series of volumes of the Photographic Survey of Dorset, 

 which survey has since been carried on by others, but was 

 founded by him, the bulk of the beautiful photographs being 

 his personal work. They are most valuable as records of 

 much that has passed and is passing away. But photography 

 was only one of many branches in which Mr. Barnes worked 

 for the Club. His first paper appears in Vol. XII. of the 

 Proceedings, and is entitled " A brief Historical and descrip- 

 tive sketch of the Churches in the Rural Deanery of 

 Dorchester," and a second one on the Roman Defences of 

 Dorchester is in the same volume. Thenceforward one or 

 more papers from his pen will be found in almost every 

 volume for many years. Architecture was one of his strong 

 subjects, and at Field Meetings he was often appealed to for 

 information about the churches visited. A paper on the 

 form and probable history of Saxon Church Architecture is 

 contained in Vol. XXIII. The Pipe Rolls and Patent and 

 Close Rolls (Dorset), especially of King John's reign, form 

 the subject of papers in Vols. XIV., XV., XVI., and XIX. 



Mr. Barnes did much work in connection with the Church 

 Bells of Dorset, some of the results being embodied in a paper 

 at p. 97 of Vol. XXVII. His last paper is in Vol XXVIII., 

 the subject being " The Liberty and Manor of Frampton. 

 Rolls of the Court Leet and Court Baron." His energies 

 were not, however, confined to his work for the Dorset Field 

 Club, and this notice would be incomplete without a reference 

 to his musical talents and his connection with the Dorset 

 Orchestral Association, of which he was the founder and Hon. 

 Secretary. Under his organization also as Hon. Secretary 

 of the Salisbury Diocesan Choral Association many choral 

 festivals were held in Salisbury Cathedral. The son of 

 William Barnes, the Dorset poet, he was born in 1840 and 

 educated at his father's school in Dorchester, and St. John's 

 College, Cambridge, where he took his degree in 1863. For 



