OF THE 



Porsef "gtafuraC ^M^tovt) & Jlxtttquariait 



During the Season 1907-1908. 



WINTER SESSION, 1907-1908. 



The First INIeeting of the Club for the Winter Session was 

 held in the Reading Room of the County IVIuseum on Tuesday, 

 December 3rd, 1907, at 12.45. The President (Mr. Nelson M. 

 Richardson) took the chair, and about fifty Members were 

 present. 



The Membership. — Six persons were proposed for Member- 

 ship, 



Report of the Delegate to the British Association. — 

 The report of Mr. Alfred Pope, F.S.A., was then read : — 



Your delegate attended the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies 

 of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Leicester on the 2nd 

 of August last, when Mr. H. J. MacKinder, M.A., presided and gave an able 

 address on "The Advancement of Geographical Science by Local Scientific 

 Societies." He pointed out that there were local geographical societies in France 

 and Germany, but that in this country little interest was taken in local research, 

 and that it is now beginning to be realised that we know little of what lies at our 

 own doors. He advocated that the whole country should be divided into certain 

 areas, so that local facts might be gathered and presented to local societies, in 

 order that all that was of scientific interest in such localities might be made 

 known and preserved. The Eev. K. Ashington Bullen submitted a paper, in 

 which he advocated the appointment of a committee for the photographic survey 

 of ancient remains in the British Islands. A discussion followed, several of the 

 delegates pointing out the necessity of photographing landmarks, the delegate for 

 the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club remarking that the 

 society which he represented had already taken the initiative in that direction, as 

 a photographic survey of the whole county of Dorset had been taken under the 



