A list (still incomplete) of the other non-periodical publications of the Society
Volumes 1-110 are covered by the
Index compiled by George Newberry, 1989, and adapted for
presentation on the World Wide Web by John Palmer, May 2001.
This is in two parts: by Subject and by Author and title.
These indexes are copyright © 1989 and 2001,
The Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society.
There is a separate and somewhat experimental Index
to volumes from 111 onwards,
in two parts, by Author and by Title.
Both parts are computer-generated from the volume tables of contents.
In the Author index, each article is indexed by each of its authors.
The Title index is fully rotated, that is to say,
each article is indexed by each significant word in its title;
so it may make up, to some extent, for the present lack of a Subject
index.
The words treated as not significant are frequent and not
distinctive, for instance "a", "and", "to" etc., and a few more
substantial words like "Dorset" and "report".
These indexes are copyright © 2008, The Dorset Natural History
and Archaeological Society.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
1(1877) 2 3(1879) 4(1881) 5(1884) 6 7 8 9 10 11(1890) 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21(1900) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31(1910) 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41(1920) 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49(1928) (Change of title) 50 51(1930) 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61(1940) 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71(1950) 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81(1960) 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91(1970) 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101(1980) 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 (Change of index) 111(1990) 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121(2000) 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130
Some past volumes are available for purchase; for more details, follow this link.
The full text of some early volumes of the Proceedings has been published on the Web by The Internet Archive. DNHAS takes no responsibility for this on-line publication. At 26 November 2008, full text was available for volumes 1-4, 6, 8-13, 17-18, 20-22, 26-39, 41-42, and links to the full text will be found in the Tables of Contents for these volumes.
In all parts of the Index, the emphasised numbers indicate volumes, and the plain numbers after them, pages; so 99 100-113 means ``vol. 99, pages 100-113''.
Volumes 1-49 bore the title Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club. The Club was founded in 1875. The present title Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society was adopted in 1928, when the Club merged with the County Museum (founded 1846).
Publication of the Proceedings has been effectively annual since 1877, except that only one volume appeared in the period 1880-1883. However the years shown above are not always exact. Sometimes the year shown on the cover was the year before that of publication, and for volumes 50-127 this was deliberate policy; but from volume 128 onwards, the year on the cover will be the same as the year of publication. The publication-date of each volume is given at the head of the relevant on-line Table of Contents; for volumes 1-61, this takes into account the researches of Sykes in volume 62, 34-36.
All the Tables of Contents have now (January 2008) been corrected by reference to the printed volumes. In consequence, a few corrections have been made to the Indexes to volumes 1-110.
Each volume from 6 to 93 includes a "business" section containing reports of meetings, accounts, lists of members, etc. In the on-line Tables of Contents this is listed as "Annual Review" (though this title was not actually used in print till volume 54); individual items within Reviews are not listed, except for Obituary articles, Presidential Addresses, and a few other items that are specifically referred to in the Indexes. From volume 94 on there are no Reviews, but some of their functions have passed to the Annual Report and the Newsletter, which are separate publications from the Proceedings.
Page-size of volumes 1-55 and 81-93 is about 21x13.5cm (A5); 56-80, 25x17.5cm; 94 onwards, 30x21cm (A4).
The International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) of the Proceedings of the DNHAS is 0070 7112.