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Feb. i c. — Exhibition of Slides of interest, by Dr. F. G. Penrose, M.D., 

 F.R.C.P., F.Z.S., Mr. H. B. Wells, and Mr. F. B. Taylor, B.A. 

 * Illustrated by Lantern Slides. 



In the Botanical Section much interesting work was done by 

 Miss C. Agnes Rooper, who arranged, during the Summer, a 

 weekly display of fresh wild flowers in the vestibule of the Public 

 Library, by kind permission of the Library Committee. Miss 

 Rooper 'was ably assisted by Mrs. Rothwell, Miss E. S. M. Jeffery, 

 Mr. H. E. Swain, and others. 



The Excursions in the various Sections and their Conductors 



were : — 



1917. 



M a y 24. — Wimborne, Rev. Hy. Shaen Solly, M.A., and Mr. S. C. Ryley 

 (Archaeological). 



May 26— Christchurch Meadows, Mr. C. G. Seeviour, A.C.P., F.R.H.S. 

 (Botanical). 



June 2.— Corfe Castle, Dr. F. G. Penrose, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.Z.S. 



(Entomological). 



June 23.— Hinton Admiral, Rev. C. O. S. Hatton, M.A. (Botanical). 

 July 10. — Christchurch Priory, Rev. Hy. Shaen Solly, M.A., and Mr. H. J. 

 Ellis, assisted by Mr. Geo. Brownen, F.C.S. (Archaeological and 

 Historical). 



July 14.— The Blue Lake, Mr. W. Munn Rankin, M.Sc, B.Sc, Mr. C. 



B. Green, Dr. F. G. Penrose, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.Z.S. , and Mr. R. 



Y. Banks (Geological, Botanical, Entomological, and Photographical). 

 July 17. — Poole Gas Works, Mr. Hubert Painter, B.Sc, F.C.S. , and Mr. 



Claude Lyon (Physical and Geographical). 

 Aug. 15. — Pottery Works of Messrs. Sharp, Jones & Co., Mr. H. Le 



Jeune and Mr. Claude Lyon (Physical and Geographical). 

 Aug. 18. — The Bourne Valley, Mr. Claude Lyon and Mr. W. J. Wood- 

 * house, A. CP. (Geographical). 



Aug. 22. — Milton Rectory, Rev. J. E. Kelsall, M.A. (Botanical). 



At the last Annual Meeting held in the Society's Room, 

 Municipal College, on October 28th, 1916, the Rt. Hon. the Earl 

 of Malmesbury, D.L., J. P., was unanimously elected President. 

 The Meeting of the British Association, which was to have been 

 held in Bournemouth this year, was abandoned owing to the 

 exigencies of the War. It is possible the meeting may be held 

 in Bournemouth in 1919. 



The Council has to record the loss by death of two of its 

 body, viz., Mr. Thos. Capper, M.A., B.Sc, who had been Joint 

 Hon. Secretary for nearly three vears, and of Mr. Robt. O'Brien 

 Furlong, C.B., M.A., J. P., Vice-Chairman of Council, 1915-16. 



The Society has also suffered the loss by death of several of 

 its Members, viz., Dr. J. Roberts Thomson, M.D., F.R.C.P., J. P., 

 who was an original Member of the Society and took the chair at 

 its first Meeting in 1903. He was a Vice-President since 1905 ; 

 Dr. John Moorhead, M.A., M.D., J. P.; Mr. Robt. Druitt, Mr. 

 Aubrey Edwards, Mr. Alfred Frewin, Colonel J. M. Heywood, 

 and Mr. Chas. Isaacs ; also two Honorary Members, Rev. O. 

 Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., and Mr. Clement Reid, 



