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causes which had changed their appearance from what they were 

 some seventy years ago. Probably the first and great cause of 

 change took place at the period of the " Enclosures Acts " when the 

 country around, then open moor and common land, had roads made 

 through it and was very generally planted with pines and fir trees. 



Then when attention was drawn to the district as a seaside 

 health resort, the gradual growth of the town, with the consequent 

 le veilings for roads and buildings — and especially for drainage 

 works, etc., have been great factors in the changes which have 

 taken place, but perhaps greater still has been the enterprise of the 

 land-owners, and the town's elected governors, who have secured 

 them as open spaces for the public, and laid out, planted and 

 embellished them in such a manner as to make up for the loss of 

 their natural beauties and caused them to be so great an attraction 

 in the eyes of both inhabitants and visitors. 



All the chines have been more or less subjected to this 

 alteration from their primitive state, but no one more so than the 

 one through which the little River Bourne flows. 



. On May 27th, jointly with the Archaeological 



Section, an excursion was made to St. Catherine's 

 Hill, the chief point of interest geographically being that it is 

 situated at the angle of the range of hills between the valleys of the 

 Avon and the Stour. 



On September 27th, another excursion in conjunction with the 

 Archaeological Section was made to Mudeford and Double Dykes to 

 examine the Sand Bar broken by the recent storm, and notice the 

 effect upon the movement of the tides in the harbour of Christchurch 

 through this new outlet for the waters of the two rivers which form 

 the estuary — one of the results- being that the volume of fresher 

 river water which reaches the sea has so attracted the salmon that 

 the fishing season has been one of the best and most profitable for 

 many years. 



Chairman : Dr. William T. Ord, f.g.s. 



The Ni as Fruit ^ e Winter Session commenced for this section 

 e ipas ru . a mee ti n g held at the Society's Rooms on 

 November 17th, when Sir Daniel Morris, k.cm.g., f.l.s., read a 

 paper on " Nipadites in Eocene Beds at Bournemouth," at which he 

 exhibited specimens of the modern fruit, which were compared 

 with fossil fruits from the Society's collection. This paper, with 

 a plate, is given in full on page 78. 



