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DURING THE SEASON OF 1887 



By M. G. STUART, M.A., P.G.S. 



The work of the Society during 1887 has comprised a meeting at 

 Dorchester on June 10th, a two days' meeting at Chard on July 12th and 

 13th, at Whitchurch Canonicorum on August 15th, at Poole on September 

 13th, a committee meeting at Bloxworth Rectory on December 12th, and 

 a winter meeting in the Dorchester Museum on January 27th. Some 25 

 papers ha^e been read before the Society during the year, and 21 new 

 members have been elected, but several have been lost either by death or 

 removal from the county. Amongsb the former is Mr. C. Warne, the 

 eminent antiquarian, a memoir of whom, from the pen of Mr. H. Moule, 

 is included in the present volume. The county generally have mourned 

 the loss of the Right Honourable J. Floyer, F.G.S., of Stafford, and late 

 in December the sudden death of the Rev. W. Kendall has deprived us of 

 one of our active supporters. 



By the appointment early in the year of two Assistant Honorary 

 Secretaries the executive of the Society has been enlarged, and its organi- 

 zation placed on a sounder basis the Assistant Secretaries being J. S. 

 Udal, Esq., of the Manor House, Symondsbury, and Eustace Bankes, Esq., 

 the Rectory, Corfe Castle. 



A new field of work has been opened by the recommendation of General 

 Pitt Rivers, H.M. Inspector of Ancient Monuments that the Field Club 

 should undertake to collect information and to draw up a report on the 

 prehistoric remains of Dorset, to facilitate which a circular letter and 

 schedule have been drawn out by the committee, which have been 

 forwarded to the incumbents of all parishes in the county requesting them 

 to make a return of the prehistoric remains in their respective parishes ; 

 also to collect information on the flowering of plants, migration ot birds, 

 and appearances of insects and their relative abundance and scarcity ; 

 together with statistics of rainfall. It is proposed to issue schedules to 



