THE SECOND WINTER MEETING. XXXV. 



Windsor. Sir Charles bought it of a Spanish priest. A heater- shaped shield 

 bore the arms of Arragon impaling France ancient, with a label of four points 

 the arms of a Queen of Arragon of French lineage circa 1300-30. 



PAPERS. 



BRITISH ARACHNIDA. The PRESIDENT read a short intro- 

 duction to a paper by the Club's distinguished araneologist, the 

 Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, who confessed that he had no 

 records just now for 1908 of any group of arachnids except that 

 of the true spiders. Mr. Richardson said he wished that they 

 had some more spider-collectors in the Club to help Mr. 

 Cambridge in the collection of Dorset spiders. 



THE MANORS OF STRATTON AND GRIMSTON. SOME 

 ANCIENT CUSTOMS. Mr. ALFRED POPE, F.S.A., read a long 

 and carefully compiled paper on some ancient customs of the 

 Manors of Stratton and Grimston, the court rolls of which came 

 into his possession on the purchase of the manors in 1895 (p. 28). 



The paper was illustrated with photos of the old Manor House 

 and of ancient deeds and maps. The PRESIDENT expressed the 

 sincere thanks of the meeting to Mr. Pope for his interesting and 

 valuable paper. 



It being past two o'clock, the Club then adjourned for 

 luncheon, and re-assembled at 2.45. 



NOTES ON DORSET FLORA. The HON. SEC. announced the 

 receipt from the Rev. E. F. Linton of the second portion of his 

 " Notes on Dorset Flora." The first portion was printed in the 

 last volume of the " Proceedings." Mr. Linton proposed to 

 write a third and concluding portion, the subject of which would 

 be " Fungi." 



BRITISH AND ROMANO-BRITISH COINS FROM DORSET. 

 Mr. H. SYMONDS exhibited two cases of coins of the British and 

 Romano-British periods found in Dorset, most of them finely 

 preserved specimens, and read a long and valuable paper on the 

 subject, (p. 58.) The PRESIDENT expressed the sincere thanks 

 of the meeting to Mr. Symonds for his paper. Captain ACLAND, 



