XCVl. PRESIDENT S ADDRESS. 



interesting information about their districts. The former also at 

 a recent meeting of the Club read a paper upon the Fleet and its 

 peculiar tides and other phenomena, and will be greatly missed 

 in the neighbourhood in which I live. Mr. W. E. Pearson was a 

 frequent attendant at our meetings, and took an intelligent 

 interest in many of the subjects with which we have to do, besides 

 his special one of painting. Though seriously handicapped by 

 his delicate health, he spared neither time nor trouble in doing 

 what he could to help and improve others, and is greatly regretted 

 by all who knew him. The latter may also be said of Miss Eileen 

 Martin, who used occasionally to be with us. Colonel Bramble 

 did not live in the county, but was a distinguished archaeologist, 

 and will be remembered for his gift in 1893, to the Dorset 

 Museum, of a valuable collection of antiquities from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Weymouth. We have lost one of our oldest and 

 most distinguished honorary Members in the person of Professor 

 Alfred Newton, F.R.S., of Cambridge. Though not a frequent 

 visitor to Dorset of late years, he was formerly much interested 

 in the county, and used to study its natural history in connection 

 with our V.-P. and former Treasurer (the Rev. O. P. Cambridge), 

 and other friends. He is, however, best known for his ornitho- 

 logical writings, "eggs being perhaps the branch in which he Avas 

 most interested. The extinct birds, such as the dodo and great 

 auk, were some of his favourites, and the Museum of Zoology at 

 Cambridge owes its development very greatly to his knowledge 

 and energy. He was a prominent feature of the University, and 

 leaves a gap hard to fill. He was elected an honorary member 

 in 1878. I do not generally allude to any who have not been 

 connected with our Club, but I cannot pass over in silence the 

 death of one of the greatest scientific men that the world has 

 known, Lord Kelvin. It is impossible here to enter into any 

 details of Avhat he accomplished, but he has been the acknow- 

 ledged head of mathematical and physical science for many 

 years, and his versatility and energy have been proverbial. 



I now proceed to review some of the more important scientific 

 developments since my address a year ago. 



