24 NOTES ON ADDITIONS TO THE MUSEUM. 



been originally adopted here. As additions in this department 

 I may refer to a Redbreast's nest, containing five eggs, one 

 of them being a Cuckoo's egg ; also to a Stormy Petrel, 

 driven ashore at Chickerell in a December gale, found alive, 

 but dying soon after the capture. It might be interesting 

 some day to print in our Volume of Proceedings a complete 

 list of our collection of birds taken in Dorset. 



We have been more fortunate in acquisitions to the pre- 

 historic and Roman collections. Six good flint axeheads 

 come from Dewlish, very similar in size and workmanship ; 

 and one nicely-shaped stone hammer, perforated to take a 

 handle, found near Preston. 



The Bronze exhibits have been augmented by nine more 

 objects from the late Mr. C. L. Hall's collection, including a 

 good specimen of a Roman " pickwick," or lamp trimmer. 

 Although we had one example before, this second specimen 

 is valuable, as it helps to establish the type. Mr. Moule's 

 Catalogue of Bronze exhibits, which was printed in our 

 Proceedings, Vol. XXI., 1890, has been brought up to date, 

 about 150 specimens having been acquired since it was 

 compiled. 



The objects found at Maumbury during the excavations 

 of 1910, are now in the Museum ; they did not throw any 

 fresh light on the history of the work, but tend to confirm the 

 theories already advanced. 



Mr. H. Symonds has given three Dorset XVIIth Century 

 Trade-Tokens, and a Dorchester token of Lawrence Righton 

 has been purchased ; it is considered one of the least common 

 of the series. The collection of Roman coins has been 

 augmented by a few good specimens, namely, a First brass of 

 Nero ; a Third brass of Urbica, wife of Carinus, who died 

 A.D. 285 ; and a Denarius of Severus Septimus, struck A.D. 

 202, this date having been calculated by Mr. Symonds from 

 the inscription, " T R P X Cos II.," i.e., "the tenth year of 

 Tribunitian Power, and the second Consulate. Mr. Symonds 

 was unable to find a counterpart of this coin at the British 

 Museum. 



