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DURING THE SEASON 1905-1906. 



WINTER SESSION, 1905-1906. 



THE FIRST MEETING of the Club for the Winter Session was 

 held in the Reading Room of the County Museum on Tuesday, 

 December i2th, at 1245. The President (Mr. Nelson M. 

 Richardson) took the chair, and forty members were present. 



THE MEMBERSHIP. Thirteen persons were elected Members 

 and eight proposed for membership. 



EXHIBITS. 

 BY THE PRESIDENT : 



(i ) A cannon ball found this year in a field at Eadipole, near "Weymouth. 



(ii.) An antique Japanese inkstone by the celebrated maker, Tan-kei, and the 

 accompanying water pot in bronze. 



(hi.) Pomegranates grown on a tree in the garden at Montevideo. The tree is 

 on a wall, but is never protected in any way. 



BY THE KEY. J. C. M. MANSEL-PLEYDELL : 



Two small cases of coins which were among the collections of his father (the 

 late Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, the first President of the Club). Most of the 

 coins were found in and around the Whatcombe property. The 24 different 

 Eoman coins exhibited were all dug up in Dorset. The oldest was a good 

 specimen of Agrippiiia, mother of Nero, who died 33 A.D. Then came coins of 

 Vespasian, Antoninus Pius, Marcus Aurelius, Severus, and two good silver coins 

 of Hadrian. There were more coins of all the Emperors during the Koman 

 occupation, the series ceasing suddenly wi+h Constantino and Constantius. One 

 tiny coin of Carausius, found in Bockerley Dyke, near Eushmore, suggested the 

 conjecture that such miniature coins were made especially for interments. He 

 also showed a fine Eose noble of Edward IV., a half -guinea of Henry VIII., 

 found during the repair of Clenstone farmhouse in 1847, several silver Portuguese 

 coins brought from the Peninsular War, some interesting old seals, and a 

 pedometer, still in working order. 



