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Miss Ida Roper gave Rubbings of 4 brasses from St. 
Mawgan’s Church, Cornwall. 
Colonel Hawley presented a Report of the work done 
under the auspices of the Royal Archaeological Society at Old 
Sarum, and 
Mr. H. T. Waddington a reprint from the Journal of the 
Royal Microscopical Society on Chirocephalus diaphanus and 
Artemia salina . 
Early in the year the Society was affiliated to the British 
Geological and Mvcological Societies. 
The Council has become a subscriber to the Southampton 
Record Society, whereby it will obtain a copy of all publications, 
issued by it during each year. 
The Cotteswold Naturalist Field Club has agreed to exchange 
Proceedings with our Society. 
The Council desires to draw the attention of Members to the 
Society’s Library of Scientific Works and trusts that both the 
Library and the Collections will be fully utilised during the coming 
year. 
For hospitality received by the Members and for permission 
to visit their Estates your Council desires to place on record their 
thanks to A. C. de La Fontaine, Esq., J.P., Sir George 
Meyrick, Bart., the Sherborne School Authorities, Mrs. Bosworth 
Smith, the Earl of Pembroke, Ernest Homer, Esq., and Lady 
Wimborne. 
In conclusion the Council offers its best thanks to the numer¬ 
ous donors of botanical, geological and other specimens, to the 
donors of books, and to the various Lecturers and Conductors of 
Excursions for their services, which have been warmly appreciated 
by the Members and have greatly contributed to the success of the 
work of the Society during the past year. 
Don. librarian’s |lcport for 1912-13. 
TAURING the past year additions to the library have been made 
both by gift and by purchase out of the funds of the Society. 
The flow of generous gifts from Dr. Crallan, which had brought 
the library well towards its present bulk, has naturally ceased with 
his removal from Bournemouth. It would be a pity if the work 
which had thus been well started of building up a library commen¬ 
surate with the activities and standing of the Society should not go 
forward. There is room in Bournemouth, among a group of men 
and women interested in science, such, as our Society is, for a 
library of modern scientific literature. The Public Libraries do 
not and for some time may be unable to fill that space. The 
Bournemouth Natural Science Society should, as soon as its 
