That permanent prints should be paid for, if desired, at the rate of 2s. 6d. per dozen for half-plate platinotypes. That permits should be given to amateur photographers, who may be willing to work for the survey, as in another county the adoption of this plan has been found of great service in obtaining facilities for workers. And lastly, it decided that the present collection should be left untouched in the existing volumes, where so large a number of interesting photographs-many of which are now unobtainable-was got together with great labour and care by Mr. Barnes, who, it must always be remembered, was the originator of the Photographic Survey of Dorset. It is hoped that, with the assistance of the members of the Field Club, and of others interested in the county, or in photography, there may be assembled here, before very long, such a collection as will take a high place, both as regards merit and numbers, among the surveys of the English counties.

I have examined the above account, together with the receipts and vouchers for payments made, and have found the same

1909.

Anniversary

Address by the President.

NELSON M. RICHARDSON, Esq., B.A.

(Read May 26th, 1910.)

OBITUARY.

IT may not be realised by some of the more recently

elected of our members that this club was successfully carried on for the first 24 years of its existence without any written rules, under the presidency of my honoured predecessor, Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell. One of his excellent maxims, which I have often heard him enunciate, and which, as well as many others, I endeavour to act upon, was that the club should always shew its loyalty when occasion offered; and I cannot begin my address without expressing my sincere regret, which I am sure is shared by every member, at

the great loss which we and the whole kingdom have sustained in the death of an excellent King, who always thought for his subjects, and was invariably ready to give up his own pleasure and comfort in order to perform duties which must often have been troublesome and irksome to him. I feel sure that you will approve of the action of your executive body, who deemed it to be only a suitable mark of respect to his memory to postpone this meeting, which was originally fixed for May 19th in the week in which the late King's funeral was to take place. The list of those whom we have lost by death in the last twelve months is shorter than that which I laid before you last year with so much regret, but it includes one of our very few remaining original members, Captain J. W. T. Fyler, who was well known and popular in Dorset, but did not take any active part in the work of our club, though he occasionally attended its meetings. We have also lost amongst our members Mr. R. S. Freame, who, though not an original member, yet joined the club in 1878, only three years after its foundation. The Museum possesses some interesting remains of Ophthalmosaurus presented by him with other fossils, and described by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell in Vol. XI. of our Proceedings. Miss Emma Burt, who joined in 1894, occasionally attended our meetings, and will be remembered by many of us, as well as by myself, for the kindly and hospitable welcome accorded to the club by her father and herself at the meeting at Swanage in 1892. Colonel Ferguson was elected in 1900, and the Rev. Nigel W. Gresley, who was elected only last year, would, I think, from what I have heard of him and seen of his interesting collections in various branches, have made a valuable member of our club. I should like also to refer to two former members. The late Earl of Moray, when living in Dorset, took great interest in the club, and was, like his brother, a keen observer of natural history, especially in regard to animals and birds. He left Dorset to reside in Scotland about 1894, and resigned his membership some years afterwards. His brother, an original member and vice-president of the club, succeeds him