XXxii. THE SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



QUARTER NOBLE. The Rev. C. W. WHISTLER exhibited an 

 interesting gold coin of the reign of Richard II. a quarter 

 of a rose noble, which was found at Cheselbourne. 



A COFFIN LID AT TOLPUDDLE. Mr. W. DE C. PRIDEAUX 

 exhibited a plaster cast of an early stone coffin lid, at 

 Tolpuddle, having an effigy in low relief with an inscription 

 around it. The PRESIDENT said the Club were much indebted 

 to Mr. Prideaux for getting this portion of the stone slab out 

 and making the plaster cast of it. 2 was voted towards 

 the estimated cost (5) of getting removed from the wall the 

 lower portion of the slab which is embedded in it. 



A DOUBLE STOUP. Mr. LE JEUNE showed a photo of a 

 reversible stone stoup with trunnions found at Christchurch 

 Priory. 



PAPERS. 



The HON. EDITOR read a paper on " The Normans in 

 Dorset." (Page 115.) 



" THE BETTISCOMBE SKULL." In the absence of the Hon. 

 J. 8. Udal, F.S.A., portions of his paper on the " Bettis- 

 combe Skull " were read. (The paper will be found printed 

 at page 176.) 



SPIDERS. The introduction was read to the customary 

 annual paper prepared by the Rev. O. PICKARD CAMBRIDGE, 

 F.R.S., the eminent arachnologist, on " British Arachnida 

 Noted and Observed in 1909." The result of the past year's 

 collecting and observations enabled him to record the 

 addition of seven species to the British and Irish list. 



WEYMOUTH AND MELCOMBE REGIS IN THE CIVIL WAR. 

 Mr. W. BOWLES BARRETT, the well-known Weymouth 

 historian and antiquary, read an interesting paper on that 

 town in the time of the Civil War. 



The meeting terminated with a paper by the Rev. A. C. 

 ALMACK on the " Pitts of Blandford St. Mary." (Page 165.) 



