1XX. CHESIL BEACH AND FLEET MEETING. 



hung a fine pair of horns of the Irish elk, the span of the antlers 

 being no less than 12 feet. Admiration was evoked by the 

 cases of butterflies and moths, all most beautifully mounted. Of 

 the smaller moths Mr. Richardson has made a special study. 

 The rare series of English Bibles, beginning with the first 

 English Bible of 1535, were alone worth a journey to see, and 

 the visitors were delighted with the exquisite service of 

 Worcester china, painted and decorated by Mrs. Richardson 

 with marvellous beauty and accuracy and delicacy of detail. 

 Then, while the party sat in chairs on the lawn, the PRESIDENT 

 gave an interesting account of the numerous, perhaps we ought 

 rather to say innumerable, objects of rarity and interest which 

 his home contains. The portions of his paper which are not 

 already printed in the " Proceedings " are given below, but for 

 further particulars with regard to Cimoliosaurus Richardsoni, the 

 head of the Irish elk, and the butterflies and moths, reference 

 should be made to Vol. XIX., p. 154, where the description of 

 the collections is given in full on the occasion of the last visit of 

 the Club to Montevideo. He said : 



For the third time I have the honour of welcoming the members of the Dorset 

 Field Club to Montevideo, and I need not say how much pleasure it gives both 

 Mrs. Richardson and myself to see you here to-day. The former visits were 

 made on August 16th, 1888, and July 15th, 1897 ; so that this being September 

 14th, 1905, those who have been present on the three occasions will have seen 

 the neighbourhood at three different times of year. I propose briefly to call 

 attention to some of the few " objects of interest " the house contains, without, 

 however, going into scientific details. As this has been chiefly a geological 

 meeting I will begin with fossils, and would mention first the large fossil 

 Cimoliosaitnai Sichardsoni, which is displayed in the library on tables lying on its 

 back, so as to show its large coracoid or breast bones, except that I have put a 

 very few of the vertebrae the right way up to show the neural spines. It is 

 figured in Volume X. of our "Proceedings" at page 171. (See also "Proceed- 

 ings " XIX., 154.) In the same room is a crocodile (Steneosaiintu}, also from the 

 Oxford Clay of Chickerell, showing the head, the vertebral column, and a few 

 teeth and scales. Also an Oxford Clay fish from Chickerell (figured " Proceed- 

 ings " XVIII., 150) (PhoMophoriis), not considered by Mr. A. Smith Wood- 

 ward, F.R.S., sufficiently perfect for description, though there are two other 

 fragments in the British Museum of probably the same species, mine, however, 

 being the only one that contains any teeth. A spine of Astcracanthm, which 



