rare if not unique occurrence; the burial was untouched and contained much gold jewellery and other ornaments. Two years ago I alluded in my address to the finding of the tomb of Queen Tii (or Tîyi), the identification of which was somewhat doubtful, as the mummy was stated to be that of a young man! This anomaly is now explained by the perusal of the writing on the sheets of gold which envelop him, which declares him to be Khuniatonu, the Queen's son. In a crypt at Rothwell, in Northamptonshire, are stored about 6,000 skulls, probably of the 14th and 15th centuries. It is interesting to note that the average measurements of these do not differ from those of Englishmen of the present day except that the Rothwell skulls are slightly larger and have somewhat broader foreheads. With regard to the alleged exceptional hardness of ancient bronze implements, it is stated that they do not owe their hardness to the purity of the metal, as they are of very impure quality, but that modern bronze can also be made very hard by hammering.

GENERAL.

I do not think that the corresponding societies meetings of the British Association last year offer anything very new and useful for the consideration of our club. Original observational work is recommended, and it is to be hoped that some of our members have always tried, and will always try, to carry out that recommendation, in their own special line, with more or less success. We cannot all emulate those great original observers, Darwin or Wallace, whose jubilee was celebrated with such eclat at Cambridge last June, when delegates from all parts of the world assembled to do them honour; but I hope that the fact that since our last annual meeting Dr. Wallace has honoured our club by consenting to become one of its honorary members may have some influence in stirring us up to follow in the footsteps of his scientific work. The adulteration of our food is one of the most important questions of the present day, which accounts for the fact

that over 2,000 members and delegates from many parts of the world attended the International Congress on pure foods held in Paris last October. In spite of a certain amount of legislation, adulteration has increased alarmingly, and it is apparently difficult to get almost any pure food at all. The human frame is fortunately wonderfully adaptive, and less harm follows than might perhaps have been expected, but the evil is a serious one, and the Congress will, it is to be hoped, have the influence it deserves. You will observe from the notice at the head of the present programme that adulteration of food is the subject for the Cecil medal competition this year. I hope that we may get many competitors and that our club may in this way contribute its share in protesting against this infamous practice. The Pasteur Institute at Paris, which has hitherto been rather crippled by shortness of funds, has received a legacy of the large sum of £1,200,000, which will doubtless enable it to greatly extend its usefulness to mankind. Another large sum of £215,000 has also been given for medical research scholarships in this country. Renewed discussion has been carried on with regard to the government of the British Museum of Natural History at South Kensington, it being considered that its welfare would be promoted if the administration of the natural history collections were separated from that of the library and art collections at the British Museum, instead of both being under the management of the Principal Librarian. The extensive herbarium of our late member, Rev. R. P. Murray, has been presented to the British Museum of Natural History by his widow, and it has also received from Mr. F. D. Godman, one of the most distinguished members of our club, a valuable collection of insects from Central America. The laying of the foundation stone of the Imperial College of Science last July has called attention to the need of a museum for the better housing and arrangement of the present science collection at South Kensington. The art collections have now a suitable resting place in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Our sympathies with that remarkable people, the Japanese, will be strengthened

by the appointment at Oxford of the first Japanese lecturer in this country. There are many other things that we may learn from them besides their language. The last note I have for this address is that of the name of a recent book which struck me as possibly useful in our club, in order to obtain the most valuable work and material for our annual volume by getting to know on what members to put pressure for those objects. The book is entitled "How to Diagnose Genius," and proceeds to point out certain characteristics by which it may be known. The genius does not come usually from either a high or low social grade; he develops at an early age; he may be either eager, alert, impatient, and impulsive, or, on the other hand, painstaking, conscientious, self-criticising, and accurate, and I gather that he generally gives a good many anxious moments to his teachers and relations. If anyone knows of any geniuses amongst our members, may I ask them kindly to recommend them to the notice of the Executive.

I close my address with every good wish for our success in the coming year.

Notes on the Present Condition of the

Dorset County Museum.

By THE CURATOR.

(Read May, 1910.)

AS S there has been no systematic account of the

additions to the County Museum since the death, in 1904, of our honoured curator, Mr. Henry Moule, I venture to think that members of the Field Club may be interested by a brief statement showing the progress made since that date, and the re-arrangement rendered necessary by the erection of the galleries, presented by the late Mr. Charles Hansford.

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In Mr. Moule's last report to the Field Club, he said, For many years it had been eagerly wished that more Museum room could be found, and a complete severance effected between Dorset and non-Dorset things. If galleries were erected, all non-Dorset things might be moved into them and the Dorset collections would have good room and a chance of proper arrangement." How sincerely we all must wish that he had been spared to carry this out himself.

The Museum was open to the public on completion of the galleries on 4th July, 1904, and the re-arrangement, which