CONTENTS. 
PAGES 
Introductory Note ... ... ... ... ... ... 5—6 
List of Officers and Council ... ... ... ... ... 7 
Report of Annual Meeting ... ... ... ... ... 8—9 
Balance Sheet ... ... ... ... ... ... 10 
Council’s Report ... ... ... ... ... ... 11—14 
Hon. Librarian’s Report ... ... ... ... ... 14—15 
Report of Delegate to British Association ... ... ... 15 
List of Members ... ... ... ... ... ... 16—26 
Rules of the Society ... ... ... ... ... ... 27—30 
Reports of General Summer Excursions. 
Hod Hill and Shaftesbury ... ... ... ... 31—32 
Athelhampton, Puddletown, and B-ere.Regis ... ... 32—33 
A Cruise in Poole Harbour ... ... ... 33—34 
Sherborne ... ... -.V. . ... ... ... 34—36 
Bingham’s Melcombe and Miilton Abb’ey ... ... ... 37—38 
Wilton ... ... ... ■... ... ... ... 38—39 
Old Sa-rum ... ... ‘ ' ... ... 40—41 
Canford Manor ... ... ... ... ... ... 41—42 
Proceedings of Sections. 
Archaeological and Historical ... ... ... ... 43—44 
Botanical ... ... ... ... ... ... 44—49 
Geographical ... ... ... ... ... ... 49—50 
Geological ... ... ... ... ... ... 50r—54 
Zoological.and Microscopical ... ... ... ... 54—55 
Photographical ... ... ... ... ... ... 55—56 
Physical ... ... ... ... ... ... 56—57 
Selections from Papers Read. 
A Comparison of some of the Diseases occurring in Animals 
with those which affect Plants ... ... ... 57—64 
The Swifts ... ... ... ... ... ... 65—71 
The Heathlands of South Hampshire ... ... ... 71—76 
Townsend’s Grass or Rioegrass ... ... ... ... 76—82 
The Native Plants of Britain and Germany, a Comparison 82—84 
The Scales of Fish ... ... ... ... ... 85—91 
The Chalybeate Spas (so-called) of the Bournemouth Cliffs ... 91—95 
Flowers in Stone as applied to Church Architecture ... 95—105 
Godlingston Manor, its History and Archaeology ... ... 106—110 
Contributed Articles. 
Museum Collections of the, Bournemouth Natural Science 
Society ... ... ... ... ... ... Ill—117 
The Geology of the Bournemouth to Boscombe Cliff Section 117—134 
Library of the Bournemouth Natural Science Society ... 135—136 
Meteorological Notes ... ... ... ... ... 137 
Index ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 138—141 
