XXXI. 



WINTER SESSION. 



THE SECOND MEETING of the Winter Session was held at 

 the Dorset County Museum on Thursday, February 2 2nd, 

 at 12.45. The President was in the chair. 



THE MEMBERSHIP. Eight candidates nominated at the last 

 meeting were elected, and nine nominated. 



NOTICE OF PROPOSALS. Captain ELWES gave notice of his 

 intention to propose at the next meeting that the Club member- 

 ship be limited to 400. 



The Hon. SECRETARY gave notice of his intention to propose 

 at the next meeting a scheme for affiliating kindred Societies in 

 the County, and Libraries in England and elsewhere, to the 

 Dorset Field Club. 



EXHIBITS. 



BY THE REV. C. W. H. DICKER : 



Water-colour drawings of a dabchick and a kingfisher, each choked to death by 

 trying to swallow a large specimen of the bullhead (Coitus yobio}. 



BY DR. COLLEY MARCH. 



A monastic sepulchral cross, unearthed with many others, near Christ Church 

 Hospital, London. 



Dr. MARCH said these little leaden crosses distinguished the 

 bodies of the Grey Friars, who perished during the Black 

 Death, 1348-9. Colonel MAINWARING enquired if any sepulchral 

 crosses had ever been found in Dorset, dug up with skeletons 

 and other relics. The HON. SEC. answered that they had 

 heard from time to time, not actually of crosses, but of little 

 "Mary tokens" dug up in country churchyards, with pictures of 

 the Blessed Virgin upon them, and supposed to have some 

 beneficial effect. 



BY MR. F. J. BARNES. 



A curious fossil, the base of a large dorsal fin -spine, probably of the Ischyodus 

 towiisciidi, found in the whitbed at Portland (Dr. Smith Woodward contributes 

 a paper thereon to this volume). 



BY Mr. A. C. PONTON. 



Some examples of Chromatic Radiography. 



