THE FIRST WINTER MEETING. XXXV. 



raised by him from seed imported from Chitral in the spring of 

 1903, and growing from seven to nine feet high in a cool 

 greenhouse at Wabey House, Upwey. Mr. CHAS. PRIDEAUX 

 showed in a bottle a fine specimen of a crayfish taken from the 

 .Frome. He had given it to the County Museum. Mr. W. DE C. 

 PRIDEAUX exhibited a leather bottle from Taunton, bearing the 

 date 1603. It was not large enough to be a black Jack, and was 

 called a black Jill. 



THE BOVINGTON ARTESIAN WELL. Mr. C. S. PRIDEAUX 

 exhibited a skilfully-executed sectional drawing of an artesian 

 .well sunk by the War Office on Bovington Heath. (A paper 

 on this subject by Mr. W. H. Hudleston appears in this 

 volume.) 



. BURTON. BRADSTOCK NODULES. Mr. T. S. ALDIS read some 

 notes on the nodules from the cliffs at Burton Bradstock. These 

 cliffs, he said, form a wall more than 100 feet high, capped by 

 Fuller's Earth clay, beneath which the whole of the Inferior 

 Oolite can be seen about eight feet thick. He suggested that 

 the irony nodules in which this stratum abounds are coprolites. 

 Mr. HUDLESTON said a few words about the conditions obtain- 

 ing at Burton Bradstock. There was a large development of the 

 Inferior Oolite sands, and superimposed upon them 12 or 13 feet 

 of various kinds of limestone, representing to a great extent 

 the Inferior Oolite. Though limited in the amount of material 

 it was excessively rich in the number of fossils, indeed one of the 

 richest deposits in the whole country, and some of the best 

 specimens in all the museums were extracted from that 13 or 14 

 feet, which included what geologists used to call the irony- 

 nodule bed, containing a great many flattened irony nodules. 

 Many of these so-called nodules were ammonites with a con- 

 cretion around them. He did not see the slighest foundation for 

 the theory of their being coprolites. 



THE ROMAN ROAD AT KINGSTON LACY. Mr. FLETCHER 

 said that during the very dry summer the road across Highmead 

 was to be seen distinctly, and Mr. Le Jeune discovered the fort 

 that guarded the ford. 



