INDEX TO PLATES, ENGRAVINGS, &c. 



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NEW AND BARE BEITISH SPIDERS 18 



AN ANCIENT BRITISH TRACKWAY 



Section of a supposed Koadway from Town to Amphitheatre 

 discovered in excavating for new Stores adjoining the 



Dorchester Brewery. August 2nd, 1899 105 



Map shewing position of Trackway 110 



RETURNS OF RAINFALL, &c., IN DORSET IN 1899 



Table L, Monthly Depth of Rain in Inches in 1893 . . . . 118-9 



Table II. , Rainfall in 1899 .. 120-1 



Table III., Average Monthly Rainfall 122 



Table IV., Statistics of the Temperature of the Air, and of the 

 Humidity and Amount of Cloud at Winterbourne Steepleton 

 Manor at 9 a.m., forwarded by Mr. H. Stilwell . . . . 123 

 Table V., Rainfall on Days of Thunderstorm and of Heavy Rain 124 

 NOTES ON THE BOOK OF CERNE 



Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4. The four coloured Illustrations of the Evan- 

 gelists, from photographs taken from the 

 original in the Cambridge University Library, 



by Nelson M. Richardson 158 



Fig. 5. A page of the Book of Cerne from a photograph of the 

 original taken by Nelson M. Richardson (with tran- 

 script) 160 



ON SOME ROMAN PAVEMENTS AND SOME INTRECCI OF THIS COUNTRY, 

 CHIEFLY WITH RESPECT TO THEIR MEANING 



Roman Pavement found in Olga Road, Dorchester, in 1899, and 



now laid on the Floor of the Dorset County Museum . . 162 

 Figs. I. XXIII. Various Intrecci, &c., with an Account of the 



Illustrations 162 



NOTES ON SOME EARLY ENGLISH PRINTED BIBLES, WITH ILLUSTRATIONS 

 FROM THE ORIGINALS IN HIS POSSESSION 



Fig. I. Part of first page of 13th cent. MS. of Isaiah on vellum ; 

 the large initial V is in blue, green, yellow, white, and 



red on a gold ground. (Full size.) 193 



Fig. II. The Byble * * * * truly and purely translated 

 into Englysh by Thomas Matthew. M,D,xxxvii,. 

 Woodcut from Exodus x. The plague of locusts. 



(Full size.) 196 



Fig. III. Thomas Matthew's Bible, 1537. Woodcut from 

 Revelation vi. The opening of the first four seals ; 

 the four horsemen. (Almost full size : reduced by 

 one- eighteenth) 196 



