XV11. 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. The President, Treasurer, and Secretary, 

 proposed by the Rev. Sir Talbot Baker and seconded by N. M. 

 Richardson, Esq., were re-elected for office for the ensuing year. 



ELECTION OF NEW MEMBERS. Seven new members of the Club were 

 elected. 



THE PROGRAMME FOR THE YEAR. After a prolonged discussion the 

 following meetings were arranged : Portland and Pennsylvania Castle 

 for July, Sherborne and Cadbury for August, Bokeiiy Dyke for 

 September. 



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

 made his report on the additions to the Museum during the past year. 

 First, the non-Dorset Department ; in the Library many of the more 

 valuable books had been bound, the Collection had been enriched by 

 British Museum Catalogues granted by the Governors, by a set of the 

 Journal of the Archaeological Institute presented by Mr. T. Bond, by the 

 Novels of Mr. T. Hardy given by the Author. In the Galleries the 

 additions to the collection had been chiefly of an Oriental nature. To 

 the Collection confined to Dorset alone, amongst the books the Curator 

 drew attention to the loan by Mr. J. S. Udal of his valuable collection of 

 books relating to Dorsetshire, 241 volumes in all. Amongst gifts to the 

 Library were Vol. x. of the Transactions of the Dorset Field Club, 

 Crowe's Poems, two Maps and Accounts of Dorset in 1610 and 1749 

 respectively, given by Mr. L. G. Boswell Stone and Mr. H. Symonds, 

 and the "Description of the Church Plate of Dorset;" lastly, the 

 acquisition of the Ordnance Map of the County, which would greatly 

 enrich the Library. With regard to the Dorset Collections in the 

 Museum itself, Mr. Moule stated his conviction that with the small 

 funds at their disposal their ambition should be more and more strictly 

 limited to making the collections illustrative of the County as complete 

 as possible. With regard to the progress of the Collection during the 

 year, the most important fact to record was that of the purchase of the 

 valuable collection of local Antiquities formed by Mr. Cunnington, which 

 was represented by the three cases occupying the centre of the room. 

 There was another loan which it was most desirable to purchase viz., 

 the collection formed by Mr. Hogg of Dorset Antiquities, most of which 

 belonged to Dorchester itself. A valuable collection of coins had already 

 been purchased by the Museum from Mr. Hogg. Many valuable gifts had 

 been made during the year. Amongst these were an interesting group 

 of coins and relics from a Roman well at Kingston by Mr. Mansel- 

 Pleydell, several worked flints and two polished celts by the Rev. O. P. 

 Cambridge ; several objects found near Cranborne, especially a very 



