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of the Museum), and Captain Acland spoke to the same 

 effect. 



Exchange of Publications. — The Hon. Sec. announced 

 the receipt of the publications of various scientific societies 

 which they sent in exchange for the Proceedings of the Club. 

 They included a series of valuable volumes from the Somerset 

 Archaeological Society and the " Proceedings of the Society of 

 Antiquaries." He asked leave to hand them over as usual to the 

 Museum Library as some return for their kindness in letting the 

 Club use their room for their meetings. And the following 

 letter from the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society — 

 one of the best societies in Europe — he took to be a great 

 compliment to the Club : — " In consequence of enquiries for the 

 Proceedings of your Club, which are not to be found in any 

 library in Manchester, I am instructed to enquire whether you 

 would consent to an exchange of publications with the society. 

 I am sending by parcels post a copy of our last volume. Should 

 you agree to the exchange we should be glad to send you an 

 equivalent in our memoirs of proceedings." The meeting 

 decided to make the exchange. 



The Hon. Secretary's Report. — Dr. Colley March made 

 the following report in his capacity of Hon. Secretary : — 



In the spring of last year a suggestion was ventured that the Club should set 

 itself to the task of solving certain definite problems, as of the lynchets, of the 

 gravels, and of a glaciation of Dorset ; and that in such pursuits, as well as in 

 the study of its natural and of its ancient history, it should endeavour to achieve 

 some measure of continuity. As yet, the important subject of gravels has been 

 untouched ; but evidence has been slowly accumulating that tends to establish a 

 deglaciation, and, therefore, an iuglaciation of this part of England. And here 

 let me say that while topography is, properly speaking, the description of a place, 

 it is by no means the same thing as pakcochartology, which is a word I offered in 

 Vain to Mr. Pojie to denote the lore of old maps, and charts, and plans, and 

 drawings, and mensurations, that he possesses in profusion ; a lore of itself, 

 altogether apart from any particular locaUty, that could yet be used by the 

 topographer as he uses any other science that suits his purpose. With resi^ect to 

 archaiology in general, leaving to Mr. Barnes the subject of Church Bells, three 

 hill-graves on the downs near Portesham have been examined. There was no 

 outward sign of their presence, which was revealed only by a slipping away of 



