THE FIRST WINTER MEETING. XXXI. 



OLD LOTTERY AND HIRING TICKETS. The PRESIDENT also 



exhibited an old lottery ticket of the end of the i8th 

 Century : 



Lottery for the year 1793. Eighth Ticket, No. 45,921. The Bearer of this 

 share will be entitled to one-eighth part of such Beneficial Chance as shall belong 

 to the ticket numbered as above in the lottery to be drawn by virtue and in 

 pursuance of an Act passed in the thirty-third year of his present Majesty's reign. 

 A. 1901, Hazard Burne & Co., Eoyal Exchange. 



The President also showed a curious little servant's hiring 

 ticket, inscribed "Hired Ann Jenkins from izth September, 

 1802, at five guineas per annum, and to find her own tea." 

 Gardner's Offices, No. ig, Narrow Wine-Street, Bristol. 



LUNAR RAINBOWS AND SOLAR HALOS. The PRESIDENT read 

 a note written by Miss H. Lucy Ridley on a lunar rainbow seen 

 by her at Charminster on November 2nd, 1906, at 6.30 p.m. Its 

 appearance was that of a white arch. The Rev. C. W. H. 

 DICKER said that one was also seen at Piddletrenthide. There 

 was a good series of prismatic colours. The PRESIDENT then 

 read a note by Mr. C. S. Prideaux on a solar halo observed 

 by him on June yth. Capt. ACLAND observed that when he was 

 staying in the north of Cornwall he saw such halos almost 

 every day. There was nothing unusual about them. 



CASTOR WARE. The PRESIDENT exhibited a fragment of 

 Castor ware, a kind of Romano- British pottery, named after 

 the place Castor, near Peterborough, where ancient kilns exist. 

 This fragment is apparently similar in material and even pattern 

 to a portion of a vase described and figured in the Catalogue of 

 British Pottery in the Geological Museum (1871, p. 69, fig. 45, 

 No. E. 89). "Vase siin. high. Paste yellowish brown with 

 black glaze (this fragment looks as if it had been black-leaded), 

 ornamented with elegant engobe scroll applied in white pipeclay. 

 Tool marks, before glazing, above and beneath the scroll." 

 This pottery is interesting as shewing the earliest British slip- 

 decoration, so much used in the iyth and i8th centuries for tygs, 

 dishes, &c., examples of which, now rare, are in his collection, 

 but hardly portable enough to be brought for exhibition. 



