XXxii. TH3 SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



EXHIBITS. 



The PRESIDENT exhibited a small ancient bronze ornament 

 composed of the four parts of two bulls facing opposite ways, 

 and Mr. ALFRED POPE, F.S.A., produced two figurines, one 

 of clay, supposed to be of the goddess Aphrodite, and the 

 other, in bronze covered with green deposit, thought to be 

 Sekhet, the wife of Ptah, depicted in the form of a woman 

 with the head of a lioness, surmounted by the solar disc and 

 urseus. Mr. Pope also showed a collection of coins brought 

 home for him from Lower Egypt by his son. 



DORSET ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITION. The Rev. C. W. 

 H. DICKER took the opportunity to commend to the club 

 the interesting and valuable work of the Dorset Arts and 

 Crafts Association, which was this year to hold its fourth 

 annual exhibition at Wey mouth. 



OLD EUROPEAN CASKETS. Mr. ROBERT HAYNE had sent 

 for exhibition a 15th Century wooden box with six plaques 

 affixed to the lid bearing figures of mummers and jesters. On 

 the sides were hunting scenes, and at the bottom a chess- 

 board. He had also sent two wooden caskets covered with 

 bone plaques, one late 14th Century and the other 15th 

 Century. The plaques on the sides of the latter depicted 

 the story of Jason. Another of Mr. Hayne's exhibits was a 

 fine bronze helmet, in good preservation, supposed to be 

 genuine Roman. In Mr. Hayne's unavoidable absence, his 

 exhibits were shown and described by Mr. W. DE C. 

 PRIDEAUX. 



SPRAT AND His " FELLOW NATIVES " IN LONDON. AN 

 ANCIENT DORSETSHIRE FEAST. Mr. WM. WATKINS, F.R.G.S., 

 Hon. Secretary of the Society of Dorset Men in London, had 

 sent for exhibition a " Sermon preached to the Natives of 

 the County of Dorset, residing in and about the Cities of 

 London and Westminster, at St. Mary-le-Bow, on Dec. 8, 

 1692, being the Day of their Anniversary Feast, by Thomas 

 Sprat, D.D., Lord Bishop of Rochester and Dean of West- 

 minster." (Bishop Sprat was a native of Beaminster.) In 



