denied free access to the Cliffs between Swanage and Stndland, which 

 the public had enjoyed at any rate for the last 60 years. The pedestrian 

 was now arrested near Old Harry, and obliged to make a detour of more 

 than a mile, deprived of one of the most lovely cliff walks imaginable, 

 the scene enlivened by crowds of sea fowl, of which Old Harry is one of 

 the principal resting-places. The Rabbit Warren could be maintained 

 equally well if the owner had incurred a little additional expense in 

 placing the iron fence 20 30 yards from the cliffs and parallel to them. 

 . . . . The address was received with applause. 



THE REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM. Mr. H. J. Moule 

 then read his report on the alterations and additions effected in the 

 County Museum during 1887. He stated that many gifts and loans had 

 found their way to the collection during the year. Geologically and 

 arclueologically Dorset was a rich and well worked mine, but the collec- 

 tions actually belonging to the county hardly showed it. The Dorset 

 fossil series was a fair one, but it did not contain 5,000 specimens on 

 view, while a private collector possessed, by report, 2,500 specimens from 

 the Inferior Oolite of the county alone against their 560. With regard 

 to the Antiquarian Collection, if the loans were withdrawn the property 

 of the county would appear to be very meagre indeed. The Curator 

 then enumerated the principal acquisitions during the year, and the list 

 of the Donors, concluding with an earnest request that, through the 

 generosity of owners of collections, the cases in the Museum might be 

 made more worthy of the county. 



THE PREHISTORIC MONUMENTS OF THE COUNTY. The Secretary 

 made a report upon the returns which had been sent in under this head. 

 He stated that it had been agreed to print and issue schedules to the 

 incumbents of the various parishes in the county asking them to fill them 

 in and return them. Returns had been made for 56 parishes, and since 

 there were, he believed, upwards of 263 parishes in the county, there 

 remained over 200 for which no return had l>een sent in. Therefore, some 

 new plan should be devised to obtain the requisite information. A pro- 

 longed discussion took place, in which Messrs. Moule, Middleton, 

 Cambridge, and others took place, and eventually it was decided to obtain 

 the assistance of various members in different parts of the county to 

 supervise the returns for parishes in their own immediate neighbourhood. 



THE GEOLOGICAL CONGRESS. The Secretary read a Circular Letter 

 respecting the Congress to be held in London from September 17th 22nd, 

 requesting the co-operation of the Club. 



At 1.15 a break was made for luncheon, and at 2 p.m. the party started 

 in carriages for Ridgway Hill, distant some 4 miles. Ridgway Hill is 



