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The Birthplace of Matthew Prior, Scholar, Poet, and Diplomatist. . 7 1 



Dorset Chantries, by E. A. Fry 85 



The Normans in Dorset, by the Rev. C. W. H. Dicker .. .. 115 



Returns of Rainfall, Ac., in Dorset in 1909, by H. Stilwell . . 129 



The Geology of the Purbeck Hills, by Dr. W. Theophilus Ord .. 141 



Notes on a Large Boulder found at Branksome, Upper Parkstone, 



by the Rev. H. Shaen Solly, M.A. .. .. .. 161 



The Pitt Family of Blandf ord St. Mary, by Rev. A. C. Almack, M.A. 1 65 



The Story of the Bettiscombe Skull, by J. S. Udal, F.S.A. .. 176 



Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the Time of the Great Civil War, 



by W. Bowles Barrett . . . . . . . . 204 



Short Report on the Excavations of Maumbury Rings of 1910, by 



H. St. George Gray .. .. .. .. 232 



Report on the First Appearances of Birds, Insects, &c., and First 

 Flowering of Plants in Dorset during 1909, by Nelson M. 



Richardson, B.A. .. .. .. .. 267 



Some Recent Books, <fec. . . . . . . . . . . 281 



Index to Volume XXXI. 283 



INDEX TO PLATES AND ENGRAVINGS. 



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Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston, M.A., F.R.S. . . . . Frontispiece 



Dorset County Museum, 1910 .. .. .. .. 24 



Matthew Prior . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 



80 



" Normans in Dorset " 



Examples at Wimborne Minster, Wynford Eagle, Studland, 

 Worth Matravers, Dorchester St. Peter's, Piddletrenthide, 

 Dewlish, also at Pe>iers (Norrnandv) and Hangleton 

 (Sussex) .. .. .. .'. .. .. 129 



Piers at Sherborne, Maiden Newton, Godmanstone, Studland, 



Piddletrenthide, and Bere .. .. .. .. 129 



Studland Church in the 12th Century .. .. .. 129 



" The Geology of the Purbeck Hills " 



The Geological Structure of the Purbeck Hills in transverse 

 section near their Eastern termination in Ballard Down ; 

 the Purbeck Hills (Central Section); the Purbeck Hills 

 (Western End). Diagrams illustrating the formation of 

 the Purbeck Thrust Fault ; the original Monoclinal 

 Fault ; the complete Fault . . . . . . . . 142 



Boulder found at Parkstone. . . . . . . . . . 161 



Bridehead Sarsen (I. and II.) .. .. ,. 163 



Branksome Boulder (III. and IV.) .. .. .. 163 



Bettiscombe Skull and Bettiscombe House .. ., ,. 177 



Montravers, Nevis ; Old Slave Dungeon, Montravers .. 189 



Pedigree of the Pinney Family (British West Indies) . . 203 



