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DURING THE SEASON 1903-04. 



WINTER SESSION, 1903-1904. 



THE FIRST MEETING of the winter session was held in the 

 Reading Room of the County Museum on Monday, December 

 i4th, at 1.15 P.M., the President, the Lord Eustace Cecil, in the 

 chair. The meeting was well attended, fifty persons being 

 present. 



MEMBERSHIP. Four candidates were proposed and twelve 

 elected to the membership. 



EXHIBITS. 



BY THE KEY. W. E. WAUGH : 

 A reduced copy in Wedgwood ware of the " Portland Vase." 



BY ME. CHARLES PEIDEAUX : 



A remarkable carved stone found near Abbotsbury and presented by Mr. 

 Prideaux to the County Museum. 



BY ME. ALFRED POPE : 



A fine collection of old engravings and maps relating to the county of Dorset, 

 and bound in four volumes. The volumes were examined with great interest. 



BY THE KEY. W. MILES BAENES : 



The Rev. W. Miles Barnes showed a series of chromatic radiographs by a new 

 process discovered by Mr. Archibald C. Ponton, of Jersey, son of Mungo Ponton, 

 one of the discoverers of photography. Mr. Ponton explained in a letter that 

 radio-active substances, brought into relation with chloride of silver in ordinary 

 "printing out paper," liberated that metal in the various allotropic coloured 

 forms discovered by Carey Lea, such as blue, red, green, purple, and golden. 



