xii. SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



showing these interesting relics, said he hoped that the Club 

 would increase its grant towards defraying the cost of the 

 next excavations, which he understood were to be carried out 

 in the coming autumn. The PRESIDENT suggested that this 

 matter should be left over for consideration at the Annual 

 General Meeting of the Club to be held in May, when they 

 hoped to have their Treasurer with them. Dr. COLLEY 

 MARCH called attention to a valuable book on " amphi- 

 theatres " by Scipio Maffei, translated by Alexander Gordon 

 in 1730. For those who followed the Maumbury excavations 

 it contained much of interest. 



THE MORINI IN DORSET. The PRESIDENT mentioned that 

 Mr. Joseph Whitby, of Preston, Yeovil, desired information 

 about any original evidence of the existence of the Morini in 

 Dorset.ref erred to in Hutchins (Vol. I., pp. ii., viii., and ix., last 

 edition). 



THE PROCEEDINGS. The PRESIDENT called attention to a 

 specimen copy of the new volume of the Club's " Proceedings," 

 upon which he offered congratulations to the Honorary 

 Editor. 



FINE BRASS RUBBINGS. The walls of the Reading Room 

 were adorned temporarily with nearly a score of fine rubbings 

 of famous and representative monumental brasses, from the 

 earliest examples downward, exhibited by Mr. R. BARROW, 

 of Parkstone, by whom they were rubbed. He called atten- 

 tion to how the rubbings, arranged in chronological order, 

 illustrated incidentally the development and change of 

 armour the chain-mail in the early examples gradually 

 giving place to the plate armour, in which in course of time 

 the knight's body came to be entirely cased. Lord EUSTACE 

 CECIL said that Mr. Barrow was much to be congratulated 

 upon the excellence of his work in this interesting branch of 

 archaeological record. The HON. SECRETARY added that 

 Mr. Barrow's fine collection comprised some of the most 

 famous examples in England. The examples shown included 

 the brasses of Sir John D'Abernon, circa 1277, said to be the 

 earliest known brass, and in Stoke D'Abernon Church, 



