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THE RUSHTON RECTORY MUSEUM. BUSINESS MEETING. 



From the church, at the Rector's kind invitation, the party 

 walked to the Rectory and inspected the most interesting 

 collections in his geological and natural history museum. The 

 coleoptera and lepidoptera are especially noticeable. 



Here a short Business Meeting was held. The one candidate 

 for the membership of the Club was duly elected. The work of 

 Messrs. H. Le Jeune and R. Dawes at the Little Mayne stone 

 circle was duly reported, exactly 50 stones having been found 

 and plotted on the 2 5 -inch map, and a vote of thanks was passed 

 to them. Captain J. E. Acland, curator of the Dorset County 

 Museum, has called attention to important documentary evidence 

 which, if correct, effectually dissipates the idea of some that the 

 so-called stone circle at Little Mayne is not a circle at all, but 

 only a fortuitous concourse of sarsens. Roger Gale, writing in 

 1710, mentions that the circle had lately been destroyed, and 

 that it formerly had two avenues, one approaching it from the 

 south and one from the east. Thus Chas. Warne may have been 

 right when, in his "Ancient Dorset," he described the Little 

 Mayne circle and avenues as "the finest Druidical temple in the 

 county." 



COUNTY DEEDS. VALUABLE GIFT BY MR. E. A. FRY. 

 The HON. SECRETARY read the following letter : 



"June 19th, 1909. Thornhill, Kenley, Surrey. Dear Mr. Pentin, I have a 

 large number of deeds referring to Dorset, which I bought from the executors of 

 the late Mr. James Coleinan, who, as you know, had a vast collection of deeds, 

 &c., which have now been sorted into counties, and are on sale in county lots or 

 in parish lots in those cases where the counties have been sorted into parishes. I 

 should like to present these Dorset deeds to the Dorset Field Club, as the 

 principal county Archaeological Society, but I am confronted by the fact that the 

 Club has no ' habitat ' where the deeds could be stored or inspected by those 

 interested, or where they could be opened out from time to time for the 

 purpose of airing them. The Club has, I believe, its meetings at the Museum in 



