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F.R.H.S., who was assisted by many of the Members of the 
Society. • 
It is universally admitted that this Congress was one of the 
most successful ever held by the Union. 
The Council has the pleasure to record that Sir Daniel Morris, 
President of this Society, was unanimously elected a Vice- 
President of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. In 
recognition of the influence and efforts of Dr. S. McCalmont Hill, 
Mayor of Bournemouth, in connection with the Congress, your 
Council recommend that he be elected a Vice-President of the 
Bournemouth Natural Science Society. 
A full and interesting account of the Congress will be found in 
the Transactions of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies 
for 1914. 
An opportunity has occurred of acquiring an interesting 
collection of Birds’ Nests and Eggs, made by the late Dr. Batley, 
of Christchurch; the collection has been valued and is in course of 
being arranged by Mr. W. Parkinson Curtis, F.E.S., and his 
brother, who consider it to be greatly to the advantage of the 
Society to purchase it. The Council desire to express their 
Thanks for and appreciation of the kind services in this matter of 
the Messrs. Curtis. 
The principal donations to the Geological Collection were:— 
Kimmeridge Fossils, by Mr. R. V. Sherring, F.L.S. 
A Rock Crystal from a Cave at St. David’s Head, by Mr. Aubrey 
•Edwards. 
A fine specimen of Smoked Quartz Crystal from St. Gotthard, by Mr. 
Henry Backhouse, F.R.H.S. 
Typical specimens of Flints and Coins, chiefly local, from Christchurch 
and Hengistbury Head, by Mr. Geo. Brownen, F.C.S. 
And it might be added that Mr. J. H. Scott made the offer of his 
fine collection of Palaeolithic and Neolithic worked flints when the 
'Society is in a position to accept it. Mr. R. V. Sherring presented 
50 specimen plants for the Herbarium. 
The chief additions presented to the Society’s Library were:—> 
“ The Steam Turbine,” by Mr. H. Le Jeune. 
“ Some Dorset Manor Houses,” by Mr. W. Eggleston Blackett. 
“ Hampshire Records Old and New,” by Mr. Wm. Dale, F.S.A. 
Twelve Volumes of the Royal Geographical Society, by Mr. R. V. 
Sherring, F.L.S. 
“ The Southampton Atlas,” by Miss Rogers-Barns. 
“ Wookey Hole : Its Caves and Cave Dwellers,” by Mr. R. A. de Paiva. 
A finely executed Genealogical Tree of the Animal Kingdom 
was presented by Mr. Geo. G. Hamilton, F.R.C.S--, F.R.H.S. 
In conclusion, the Council desires to record its appreciation of 
the kindness of Sir Edmund Antrobus, Bart., for permitting the 
Society to visit Stonehenge, and also to express its best thanks 
to the various donors of gifts to the Society, not enumerated, also 
to the Lecturers and Conductors of Excursions for their services, 
which have been much appreciated. 
