ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



The Annual Business IMeeting of the Club was held in 

 the Reading Room of the County IMuseum, Dorchester, at 

 1. 1 5 p.m., on Tuesday, May 12th. The President, the Lord 

 Eustace Cecil, was in the chair. 



Seven persons proposed and seconded at the last meeting, 

 on February 1 8th, were balloted for and elected unanimously. 



Three persons were proposed for membership. 



The Mansel-Pleydell Memorial Scheme, approved by 

 the Committee of the Mansel-Pleydell Memorial Fund, was then 

 considered by the meeting. The committee proposed the 

 establishment of a prize fund for the encouragement of the 

 study of Natural Science, the fund to be administered by the 

 Field Club. It was decided, on the motion of the Hon. 

 Sec. (Dr. CoUey INIarch), to refer the scheme back to the 

 committee. 



Barrow Breaking. — With reference to the barrow breaking 

 on Ridgeway Hill, the Hon. Secretary announced that the 

 Countess of Portarlington had instructed her agent to prevent 

 any further damage to barrows on the Came Estate. 



The Alienation of the All Saints' Roman Pavement. — 

 The Hon. Sec. read communications which he had received 

 from antiquaries with regard to the report that the Rev. S. E. V. 

 Filleul, rector of All Saints, proposed to present a Roman 

 pavement found in All Saints' glebe to the inhabitants of 

 Dorchester, Boston, Mass , U.S.A. 



The Rev. W. Miles Barnes said he supposed that the 

 pavement, if not sent to America, would be destroyed. The 

 nature of the cement seemed to have gone, and the tesserae 

 were so loose that one could take them up by the handful. 

 Laying these pavements was a costly work, and he did not think 

 that the Museum had funds enough to lay the pavement if 

 offered to them. Therefore it seemed that sending the pave- 

 ment across the Atlantic really saved it from oblivion. I\Ir. 

 Richardson (Hon. Sec. of the INIuseum), ]\Ir. Moule (Curator 



