The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-01-29 00:00:00

DORBET COUNTY 11118EUIl AND LIBRARY.

The first annual pleating of the rubeerihvris since the
opening of the new building to..k place 0•, Tburoday
afternoon fut. There were present :—J. Flavor,
Em., Ml'.. W. & Brymer, Esq , Mr. R.
Pearce (hoe. sec.), Mr. J. 0. Manes) Mr. B.
L Kindersley, M.j .r R. William., &v. E. Ludlow,
Mr. M. C. Weston, Mr. U.S. G. Grerory, Major J.
F. Hodges. Rs,. Dr. 0 thy, Rev. N. G. Gresley, Mr.
A. &neon. Mr. F. B. rasher, Mr. ilansforJ, Mr.
Penni Mari, Rey. H. P. Rdkes. the gaVOr (Mr. H.
D4rden). Rev. 11. Flankey, Rev. M. Green, Mr.
Henry Menlo, Mr. H. B. Middleton, '.fr. >ale (G j.
moutons), Rev. T. W. Kulp., Rev. S. Ilibbs, Mr.
T. A. Bigp, Ao.
Oa the motion of Mr. FLOTIM, Mr. Nlansel Pleydell
we. voted to the chair.

The minutes of the last mooting htsing been real,
Mr. E. Penne (boo. um) prooontel his report, which
ws, as follows :

" Toe anted!, in presenting their report for the year 1811
to the members of the Dorset County Yuman, ant Libra') ,
would Call attention I, it, pecuniary pention and its future
prospects Th• completion mml ercupal al the new
boil I-
long.. which took pace Cuing the year. Is • • try .4 the utni
Importance In t:.• development of the Inetitutlon The nue-
' c o. which bee attends I the labours of (ho Ituild.ng • Nolunitte*
node no 'pea 1 refer, n..e. salt bm rreen'ly been nr right to
the notioe of the members and the pabbc at the nicotine 1.-14
o the tat • f Janne:v. lhal, when the chur wa• tak.ot by till
Fart of Shafteetoury. who Its been t..er rentoi.• of the (net •
tattoo from Its foot lotion In 1845. The annual accumt below
Oreo the financial eta,emmt for the year leaj. It *ill I •
observed with satisfaction that there Is • hal moo in ha J of
£244 6 I. Toth, mutt be added 1:17 10 ~th' rent 'lite fret. the
School of Art 'oth. 31st of December. atoll, ..mk.a tot actual
baninee of £l9 lit 54. in larour of the n•titntion. At. thee
of tranntion like the present them Is toni• Jficu ty tin arriv-
in: stool arcnrate Monate not our ways ant in vn• ; but WI
Lppl .11costo estimate may he eabanitted to the memboa I.
*440 them In their natlay f r the pre, I 1 oar: I ha
tenbttons £l2O rent from ha School of Art. £3O ; Casual
cone,iio—Making £l7O. Th expend tore, to orvi on till.
i,lo Paat year. mar C. Mitett at *llk\ whirl. leave. a
balance of imam over ,ipsaaltan• for UN CUMni Tear of
AU. With thIS loam* in NW dinds—loortue oUS of oUr

conelskrati ws inch further Wavier .4 our 114 mabWrib.r.
se may ha fs.iy ant.cipated the Council rercew vend
that Us• pate,. ,at 011 be c stator, 311 r. M. J X onlc. 0".4
•Yeraeric vervx 4 t hewi ly reentn S. be now un le -
taken by the:u ; a.. I lbs so, 11,441th1h ba wit. to she
Bubb ,'lo •• In the •••11 a , mak lt mores.of.nl a.. I
p 'paler. Tn.'t tate th op .ort on tyoo en le: th•lr t
oh so Mr. Wham for gene, one Y Prow li4 the
▪ o. the ur .t r .r th • pt.' year. I. wle be perativol
that no wen. yon has b -en mot, .4th. 10. 111 .4 ream wet and
.4. Tose -WO a Cal 19. IS I. ha • hem vale de on
tfsl. .ce to the pr egg, to e. lb. eurp.sur .1 the
b ..1 Will U.N. and prob.bl.. tato • mtthi of
OV, tor fur., U.. It hae btoo Jae NI Y 1,111444 10 ILINto
Lb. "_,M.'" f'r 'us ,vidit an anii.hont Watt diatio,t fro si
the "..wd warns t, Etaen oelow, to or.. 4 confusion.
ant W • table toe c utic I I regultte their es ettollt ore on
either &rect.,. lure accurately. Th • donatoons which have
beers acc.pte I by th • c uncei s KW that It would
I.ewl, boob's the lecuth fthie r pi t of ihq w'r' draw,
on 1.1 .11. The e..rdnal thanks of the monsters we doe frous
Stem to the severs' donor.. As to ,he future ,opec • the
OQUIICIi NWANNII a ...enfant hope of steolY rod Pertss.....l
program Their pau exparauce warrants hoe hope. Thu
I'ICIr-hOL, of subscribe gOOOO weir% the grewin{ totereet
evidenctel by th• greater nutoaer tiNtol te the murmurs,
the ace eel. to the hot of denations of bp*o sad obje 1.1
of lowest all Mod too c messier th that ‘h'
of lb. Institut ou • ansure.J. •41 i that it wilt take rank and
men bear favourable cympari.. , with lINIWAIININ IA S like
character its et ter townie.. I cann .t al to Le • • object of
•ttidaetion and tba Mules.n to all who bars 0...” their
labour that their work h e prteP•rtait .1 U"lt " $lO7
co:lndus to prosper Will b ti, sun of the CAIOCiI td of
every officer of th s lode' Otte,. no doe C altictlen of tertiary
cols and tweet then, which bet .n asd 10th. Isle Illy 11.
if. awl, pruenstel by the Dorset Plaid Cub throuan
.refewor Buckm., anti the Vie. •Uon of D any t tire. MOO.
to a rly belonging to the gruatatemii eatitittut, Browo
Breseuttd 107 Bingham, may be
It O.tl N taw,: sty wordy of note "
It WWI stated r y Luc &Maar:tat that even if they
uudertaok the ouratir'• salary in the 'muting yea!,
th.ty rtotati suit bare • considerable Palacioe on the
right sloe.
In moving the adoption of the espial. the CHAU,"
MAN watt he thought they mieht condi& ul.ti the n.
selve• on the sucoesiful kens of the last yea. as well
as on the probtble outo ime of the present.
were no. on toe high road t / sooner, au.l t sup trusted
the g 00.. l words am 1 eloquent soiree, of L ad death.-
bury and the al. of (1.,., .2 ritt.itivere,
.lelivered • short time sg o, would bear fru t They hal
hane fruit already, for the Council hal reomiee la fare.
uuonbar of oistributions Mum the ineoti tif warn neld.
For instauce, Lir.l Sits' tesbury had P0N41110410 them
a gold noble fouud near 1..1 ruhrwmr, and several other
locally found 0,154. Then soother outcome of the
inteting WIN the favours de tittp action of Mr. Warne
toward. the Museum. Mr. Warne, as they all knew,
I was a great itudquarian, anti hi. same was cell known
by his contributions to carols the Literature of the
antiquities of Dorset, sad he ha I al., bem • very
hard worker. LLe had heard (row his son, Ur.
Charles Warne, Jon, who stated he had always con.
mdered the ilormit Museum was the proper place for
depositing the antiquities his father had found in the
county, eon he would oisJum the matter pith his
f ither and communicate with Mr. Mottle on the sub-
ject ; he added he should like to stipulate that the
antiquitim should be kept in a hue together and not
N}WW•NI/ and lust they should be known as the
Waco. Collection.

As it *al intimated that Mr. Warne would probably
nraleut the whole of hie o 'ligation to the idurpeurn, it
warn acknowledged to be one of the beet present 4110. s
they had ever ha .er, as Major WILLIAM r imuked,
" It drill be the making of the iluaeum altogether."
'The Cmainrgx, hsviug expressed the upe that
11. r. Wisrue's exempt. w iuld etimulste other c Milt)
ast.quariea t wind in their collections instal of keep-
ing then in their manes, rein wkal three was
another collection which be suggested they should go
.0 or—U/4 of Mr. Jeffery, who had Made a god
collection f antiquities found nese Weyin oath some
: time ago, but aithough 4r. Jar ory, jun.. &eked •
large sum for toe collection, he did not specify
dedsivedy any price.
Ater a few remarks on the subject, the adopti in of
i the moon wee sec onded by Ur. FLUX'S. If. tb ught
after all Mr. Williams hail done for the Slues= with
a most liberal and generous haud—(applauso)—it wan
quite right they should now take upon themselv.e
tbe expenditure proposed by the report—namely, the
: attrator's salary. This would leave them, al he under-
stood it, with the present subscriptions and expeitii-
ture, • bale.* of something like £2O • year. Now,
they had a great many things yet to do, and he hoped
it would not go forth, or that the con .ti
would take that view of it, that they had
plenty of mmey and did not want any additional
IIIOOM.I. When he looked around that room be saw
there were many things yet heeled. The bookca4i
there waa his patrimony, axd Ile would not prop iise
it sliould be banished from tim room, I,OOALISe a. log
as it remained there he shell, as be hat done piece
childhood, look upon it with great respect—(laud:oer)
—but he di l not think it was • °relit to the
room, and they wanted • much larger olio).
Various improvements were need d but they amid
not be done for nothing. Theo if, &a he hoood they
might at some not distant dive, have Mr. Waroe',
collection, h slowed they r,mLI rerueire •se y
considerable outlay to put the things in proper
In a museum of thia kind almost everything 111,111 MA il
not only upon hiving good timings, but upon ettablinr
people to see them, and ses them easily an I well. To
do this mast cost a great deal of money. A balsnoe
£2O wee of c nine • good thing, but what they
wanted wan enough ni may leo that toe Iluseum might
be properly furnished and established, and that they
might have another day • co iaiderable addition to
their library—an allit,mm chmlvfl, he would nt eay
entirely, of books relating L., the county, and there
were plenty that ml.cht be a Ideal, but to obtain them
they must, se he bad said before, have tuttle. and he
hoped these would be forthcoming to inset expertise' of
that kind. Ile Was anxious to inapres• upon idle comity
at lento that they had now an excellent buililio4, an
excellent curet or, and a great rainy excellent and
valuable things, aril what they now wanted wee the
moan. at their eximniand to wary on the Stuaeuini ma
it ought to be carried on. die hoped the county would
one, it they happened to read what he was saying. that
they really did want a c inside able addition to their
funds in order they might be able todi all they wished
to do to make the Dorset Sluommin winthy of the
coT2ty._(.lpplause.)

Mr. Pistice said they looked forwerd to getting
another £l,OOO for the purpose of doing those thinos
which might be considered extraneous from the annual
ordinary workino of the funds of the iostitutiou. At
preeent, taking their actual ressitpts from the sub-
scriptions, they were only able to go on trom hand to
mouth, and they proposed sow to make the paymeut
to Mr. M mole, which th .y thought thry were bound
to make as "on as possible, aod the little further
expenditure they proposed to make on this account
was Amply toot which would help them as a g mioc
concern, an I help to make them in ,re oucceseful than
they I,therrise oh 'old be. Still, they moot jo ford]
to the county so waotiug another El 00) t, c =plate
the institution, and t ley mist try tr raise this by
hook or by crook in the course .if ti tie. Bat pe iple
hal been no bouotiful, an I so much lab itir ha I beeu
bestowal upon the bazaar and other chino in chairing
off Vie building debt, cod giving them the 00 or £7O
t 'wards the furnishing, thot they he•it.te I to tiros
the matter at Vie ['moot time. They must let the
matter rest for a while, but he hoped they w eul.l
eventually get the extra funds they required, so as to
enable them ti go forward in the direction they
deeirsd. (Rest, bear.)
An Important matter was referred to by the ltev.
M. ilfitellT, viz., the insurance of the building. The
Museum wee insured for only £4,000 which he con-
sidered an Insufficient ann.—The to otter was referred
to the c mocil f .r.f attire cons' leratien.

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Alludiug to Mr. Warne's collection, the Caste
MAN said it had lost very much of its value from the
absence In it of that partion which was most interest-
ing to Dorsetstaire. By some mistake or other • very
beautif al specimen of the oornbratb foesil—one of the
filmed that mold bo found—was absent, bow, they dii
not know. But Professor Buckman bad an lertaken
as far as possible to replace the lows, or, rather, to give
them the advantage of his good 43 illation from the
very be Is whore thew were collected. They were in
hopes of baring some In'erior oolite Wade, too, but
probably Profess or Buckman, who had • large
collection of that series himself, would Present them
with some seas to make the whole c diectiou of mid lie
nolito, down to the inferior 0 oasis prri ut oo could
b.. lie (the sueaker) bad w ooked during a great pot—
ti 03 of hi, life ups the upper o olia of the
Kimmerido clay and Portland bids, sod had • fair
and he 13 oped with thee. and Prologs or
Ba•
ckman'. coil otion th.. AO' ..4no ill be well t
m rote I. NI, Foyer isa spilt u .1, out th oe. lof
al litional furniture. HO tbougot they could tusks
contributions tOWAIhI4 Ca*. and bookshelves, and
they mi4ht then get some of the members who were
gi mewed of m ore wealth than others to subscribe.
Hi should be very glad himself, al semi as the pattern
was set del up on, to give a case auffioieutly large
to receive s' Oa 1 aide fossil. from the Puo -
beck down to the lie% (Applause.) He expressed
the hope others would do the same, sod
thee people w oudl give cases In the same we
as in ony uow gave memorial windows. (Laughtor.)
He thought they should express their gratitude to
Mr ‘foule I r whAt he owl dome for the Momenta this
yeor, awl for Ihe very efil leut way in which he Ma
s e Wotifica Iv place I all the •iilfereht ohj lots. He
wino...dilated the member, of the society upon having
so doetiognishe I • in on as If r. Motile to help them,
aoi he home I 1., the future Mr. Pearce would be able
preeent .4 favourable • balauce sheet a, he trol
ofo coo tol. occeion. so VI to be able to ensure Mr.
bf,ule'e v disable sorvicee for a very long time.
(Apple se ) Referring to other collections in the
o ouoty the Chad man spooks of NO., Durden'e, who
had diapi•ye 1 great intelligence in the arrangement
of his large rotten. ion. He had acne hopes if they
were able to secure Mr. Warne's grand collection that
th v wool I els o get that of Mr. thirds% who was •
gmat friend of Mr. Wr-oe's, Their Museum would
th.obese valuable a. any in the county.. (Appian,...)
On the m dioon of M. WMITIS, seconded by Me).,
R. WILLIAMS, ths othare were reappointed for the
enetin; year.

The 011,1;1111,1N propose I, and Mr. WEITOI
woe' lA, that the retiring members of the eonncil
Si.'. Curtin., Mr. Middleton, Mr. West ,u,
Mr. W. A. 13 take., i Mr. A. l'ope, be re-eleeted
With t'ne a Id tin of Mr. N.thaniel Bold in the pier*
of the late
Mr. Ntons said the meeting must not separate
:thont .win: t express hi. thanks for the
kind wor is el' k-n shoot Lim. li. ha I dens hie best
t. strengthen the hands of the Connell, an I he hoped
they w odd s• rengthen his heads so that he might con-
tinue ti n hi. h .4. (44,1au50.)
Mr. Catuoar remark of he should be plowed to
✓egeta to tie Moe-uin if they oon•id Ted it &servile:
of no ept tam the ,hair and it. appen !ages in which
mewl's.' of Perlismeet used to be curie I round th,
two aft, rl.rti a. Zr WM net of great antiloity,
hat in f,• vow. it w;2l't be o inddere I• c
ffe b,lievrd it w the id et:ea' chair Lord Alingtou
alludet ti at t"of Cum Etching, at west. (ALI,
Mr. Pittia.a few.. It Mt. Fl,llTill ireon4o..
rite of ii, Ice to Lie Clonal which wee oarricl
by swelmuati
The pruowding• then t Twin