1. THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



gave the Meteorological Journal, Vol. XXVII., the Record of the Ben Nevis 

 Observations, and other books, and also several numbers of meteorological 

 magazines. Mr. Stone gave the Minutes of the Dorset Standing Joint Com- 

 mittee, Damon's Geology of Weymouth, with other books, and also maps 

 relating to Dorset. From him, too, came "VVorsae's Antiquities of Denmark, the 

 Index Fungorum Britannicorum, and other books. The trustees of the British 

 Museum have sent several volumes of their valuable catalogues and guides — c.ff., 

 catalogue of Fossil Fishes, part 3, and Guides to Babylonian and Assyrian 

 Antiquities. Again, Mr. Hudlestone and Mr. Jukes Browne have given copies 

 of their important papers on Creechbarrow and on the deep boring near Lyme 

 Regis, respectively. The Rev. W. Miles Barnes has given a Prayer Book of 

 1672, long used in a Dorset Church ; Mr. J. Groves, Dupin's History of 

 Ecclesiastical Writers ; Mr. Williamson, Reminiscences of a Yorkshii-e Naturalist. 

 Mr. Merthyr Guest has presented a list of the Blackmore Vale Hounds from 

 1833 to 1900 ; Mr. Pomeroy Bond, Vol. I. of Oulton's Itinerary, containing a 

 description of Dorchester ; and Mr. R. Bastick, a volume of sacred music by 

 Mr. J. Brown, of St. Peter's Choir, Dorchester. This long library record must 

 yet include several papers, parchments, and prints. The parchment conveyance 

 mentioned in the last report, as lent by the Rector (the Rev. S. E. V. Filleul) and 

 the Churchwardens of All Saints', Dorchester, has been presented to the Museum, 

 together with several other interesting old documents connected with the parish. 

 Also the Rector has given an engraved portrait of the Rev. W. Ben, a noted 17th 

 century predecessor of his. This and the parchments have been arranged and 

 framed, and are shown in the Museum. Lastly, from Mr. G. MUes we have 

 received a list of the subscribers to the Dorchester festi\aties there on Queen 

 Victoria's Coronation Day ; from Mr. H. D. Sime, a list of Uploders Jurors, 1756 ; 

 from the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, a list of the late Rev. W. Barnes' pupils, 18-14 ; 

 from the Rev. C. V. Goddard, a paper on Milton Abbey by the Rev. H. Pentin ; 

 and from Mr. R. Bastick, an engraved portrait of the Rev. H. F. Yeatman. 

 About work in the Museum and library we have, as always, to thank Mr. and 

 Mrs. Richardson for their skilful and constant care of the collection of 

 Lepidoptera. The Curator has to report that his labours have been hindered, 

 though only for a few days actually stopped, by illness. Still, a good deal has 

 been accomplished, mostly connected with coins and books, branches of work to 

 the prolixity of which any expert will testify. The last report recorded that Sir 

 J. C. Robinson's fine gift of fragments of Roman glass had been arranged and 

 his coins read. The Curator has since made and placed with the first collection a 

 fair copy of an admirable essay on Ancient glass written by Sir J. C. Robinson 

 for this very purpose. And much time was spent in properly arranging liis coins. 

 Later the Curator had much thought and work in choosing, repairing, arranging, 

 and in making descriptive labels for the very valuable antiquities lent by Mr. 

 C. L. Hall. Further, there was a great deal of work in uupapering the countless 

 parcels of plants filling the trays of the great herbarium. Each parcel had been 

 most carefully wrapped up for safety in coming from Whatcombe ; and, under 

 good advice, camphor has since been put into each tray. Lastly, there has 



