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The Library had received several additions during the year. Amongst 

 these were old documents in the possession of the late Mr. Barnes, 

 presented by his son the Rev. Wm. Barnes. The works of the Rev. W. 

 Barnes, presented by the subscribers to his memorial. General Pitt- 

 Rivers, F.R.S., had sent the second volume of his Antiquarian 

 Researches. The last volume of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary, presented 

 by Mr. T. D. Galpin. Rogers' Memorials of the West, presented by 

 Captain Phelips, R.A. Lilly's Almanack for 1666, by Mr. Montague 

 Guest. Anyer's Map of London, 1563, by Mr. T. B. Groves. Saxton's 

 and Blaen's Maps of Dorset from Mr. W. G. Stone. Dorset Folk 

 Speech from Mr. J. S. Udal. Reprint of the Fire of Blandford in 1731 

 from the Rev. T. Cross, and other works. The Curator noticed the 

 interest attaching to the Chinese collection presented by Mr. Williams, 

 which had been re-arranged during the past year, as well as to cases 

 containing the large collection of Dorset antiquities. 



The President gave a summary of the work of the past year in place 

 of an address. He stated that he could bear personal testimony to the 

 zeal and attention displayed by the Curator of the Museum Mr. H. J. 

 Moule. He referred to the loss through death of a member of the Club 

 Mr. Damon whose energy in collecting objects of geological and 

 antiquarian interest in various parts of the globe was well known. His 

 name was familiar locally in connection with the little book which he 

 published on the Geology of Weymouth, whilst visitors to the British 

 Museum would find it associated with a valuable collection of fossils 

 brought by him from the Lebanon. With regard to observations in 

 Natural History during 1888, in the County, through the kindness of 

 Sir Richard Glyn, the appearance of the Great Bustard had been 

 recorded. A keeper in the employ of Sir Richard Glyn stated that he 

 first saw the bird on May 17th, 1888 ; it could run at a fast rate, but did 

 not seem to fly with ease. The last time he saw it was on Compton 

 Down ; it then flew on to Melbury Down beyond Whitworth's bushes. 

 It did not fly high, nor more than a mile from where it rose. The 

 observer never approached nearer than 150 yards. The President 

 stated that this description coincided with Mr. Chaffin's account of the 

 flight of Bustards which he witnessed on the Downs near Woodyates 

 Hill, near Salisbury, 100 years ago. An Eagle had been seen during the 

 year in the neighbourhood of Morden Park. It had been stated that 

 this bird, contrary to the usual habits of the Eagle tribe, frequented the 

 gibbets of Mr. Radclyffe's kennels at Hyde and eat dead flesh. Mr. 

 Portman, who has observed the habits of Eagles and other birds of prey 

 in Norway, where they abound, saw the Eagle at Morden Park, He told 



