XXVI. tHk SECOND WlNtER MEETING. 



Certain alterations in the Rules were proposed by the Hon. 

 Secretary, the details of which will be given under the Annual 

 Meeting. 



At the President's request the Rev. W. R. M. Waugh read a 

 note on the new star, Nova Persei, which will be found in this 

 volume as a separate article under the title " Note on the new 

 star in the Constellation Perseus." 



EXHIBITS. 



BY H. COLLET MAECH, ESQ., M.D. : 



1. A series of scratched flints from the Portisham neighbourhood, which Dr. 

 March considered evidence of a glaciatioii of that part of Dorset. 



BY THE HON. SECBETAKY: 



2. A fine and perfect specimen of the Oleander Hawk Moth (Ch&rocampa 

 nerii) caught at Chickerell September 24th, 1900. Mr. Dale said that one 

 specimen had been recorded from Dorset at Cranboume. 



3. A small Wedgwood plaque, blue ground, representing Hope addressing 

 Labour, Art, and Plenty. The special interest of this medallion lies in the fact 

 that it is made from a trial consignment of clay from Australia sent to Wedgwood 

 by Sir Joseph Banks, whose journal in his Dorset tour was published in the last 

 volume of our Proceedings. The medallion is dated " Etruria, 1789," and is 

 figured in Meteyard's "Life of Wedgwood" and Jewitt's "Ceramic Art of 

 Great Britain," a full account of it being given in the former work. 



BY THE PRESIDENT : 



4. The rattle of a rattlesnake. 



BY H. A. WILKINSON, ESQ. : 



5. A fine Palaeolithic and other worked flints from Jordan Hill. 



PAPERS. The following papers were then read. The first 

 two will be found in full in the present volume : 



1. " Eponymous families of Dorset" by the Hon. Treasurer. 

 This was illustrated by coloured representations of various coats 

 of arms. 



2. " Some notes on Major Coates' discovery of the ancient 

 water supply of Dorchester " by Rev. W. Miles Barnes (printed 

 in this volume). 



3. " Dorchester Antiquities," Part 2, by H. J, Moule, Esq. 



4. " Borrowed Plumes," by Captain A. Rickards. With 

 respect to the title of his paper, Captain Rickards explained 



