CONTENTS. 



Introductory Note :.. 

 List of Officers and Council 

 Eeport of Annual Meeting, 1915 

 Summary of Cash Account 

 Council's Report 



The Late George Gibson Hamilton, M.B., F.R.C.S. 

 List of Members 

 Rules of the Society 

 Report of Inaugural Meeting and Presidential Address 



Reports of General Summer Excursions. 



Highcliffe Castle ... ... 



Cranborne Manor 



Crichel House and Gardens 



Wimborne St. Giles and Knowlton 



Notes on the Sections and their Work, 



Archaeological and Historical 

 Botanical (i) Chairman's Note 



„ (ii) Spartina Report, by 

 „ (iii) List of Plants 

 Entomological 

 Geographical 

 Geological 

 Photographical 

 Physical 

 Zoological 



R. V. Sherring, F.L.S 



C. B. Green 



Joseph Neale, B.A. ... 



W. Munn Rankin, 



M.Sc, B.Sc. 

 Dr.Dukinfield H. Scott, 



F.R.S 



R. Y. Bankes 

 Clement Beid, F.R.S... . 

 W. Omer Cooper 



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48—60 

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63—66 



66—69 

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 73—82 

 83—86 



Selections from Papers read. 



Miscellaneous. 



Some Isle of Purbeck Plants 

 Colour Pattern of Puss Moth Caterpillar 

 Azolla and Pilularia 



The Fore-runners of the Flowering Plants 



Natural Colour Photography 

 Ancient Rivers of Bournemouth 

 Woodlice ... 



The "LIME " Series. 



I. Lime and other compounds of Calcium, con- 

 sidered from the Standpoint of Chemistry 



... Hubert Painter, B.Sc. 



F.C.S. ... ... 86—93 



... W. Munn Rankin, 



M.Sc, B.Sc. 93—96 



III. Calcium and its Compounds, from a Geogra- 



phical Standpoint ... ... ... W.J.Woodhouse,A.C.P. 96—106 



IV. Lime as an Agent in Nutrition, Protection, / 



and Distribution of Plants ... ... Sir Daniel Morris, 



K.C.M.G., F.L.S. 105—112 

 V. Lime in the Service of Man ... ... Hubert Painter, B.Sc 



F.C.S. 112—123 



Index ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 124—127 



and Physics ... 

 II. The Geology of the Local Chalk 



