xliv. OSMINGTON MEETING. 



Portland, which was unexpectedly met with somewhere in this district by Mr. 

 Frederick Pickard- Cambridge. Perhaps I have said enough to show that there 

 is much to be found here as well as seen, and I will conclude by wishing everyone 

 success in their special pursuits. 



The paper was illustrated by a coloured folding diagram shew- 

 ing how the strata, after being crumpled up to form anticlinals 

 and synclinals, were first planed off by denudation, and the 

 Upper Greensand afterwards deposited on the fresh surface. 



Mr. ALFRED POPE said that he had an original water-colour 

 drawing by Upham, of Weymouth, which was made in 1821, and 

 which showed the burning cliff. But Damon, in his " Geology 

 of Weymouth," gave the date as 1826. The assumption, there- 

 fore, was that the cliff was burning for at least five years. 



The PRESIDENT : Or that there were two burnings, as at 

 Charmouth. 



The members then rambled along the cliffs and beach to 

 Osmington Mills, collecting specimens. 



Geology, Entomology, Botany, and Conchology had their 

 exponents in the President of the Club, Mr. E. R. Sykes 

 (President of the Malacological Society), Dr. Hawkins, Rev. 

 E. F. Linton (author of "The Flora of Bournemouth "), and the 

 Rev. R. A. Chudleigh. 



On nearing Osmington Mills, a section of the party took the 

 pathway up the Ringstead Chine, beside a brawling stream, 

 whose banks were covered with ferns and overhung by leafy 

 trees, in search of the remains of 



OLD RINGSTEAD CHURCH, 



the chancel arch of which was found at last in an old cottage. 

 Here the HIGH SHERIFF (Mr. H. B. Middleton), on the 

 invitation of the HON. EDITOR, gave a brief account of the 

 church and the probable cause of its destruction. The upper 

 part of the chancel arch is of i3th century date; the pillars 

 supporting it may be earlier, but they were so walled in that it 

 was not easy to make a thorough examination of them. Ring- 

 stead was united to Osmington in 1448 (the deed is dated 



