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would have to be solicited, while every effort would be made to cause 

 <is little trouble and inconvenience as possible by the inquiry. The 

 committee are of opinion that voluntary and efficient assistance 

 could be obtained from members of the club and others, so that the 

 area of the county could be divided with advantage into districts, 

 and other spheres of inquiry marked out, and each department 

 assigned to some representative of the committee, who would collect 

 information with a careful exercise of tact and diligence and place it 

 in the hands of a central receiver. Your committee therefore venture 

 to ask the Field Club to give its sanction for the work to be begun 

 without delay and to empower them to add to their number within 

 a limit, say, of 15. Signed, on behalf of committee, C. H. MAYO and 

 A. C. ALMACK. 



Mr. ALFRED POPE, in moving the adoption of the report, observed 

 that an archaeological society could do no more interesting work 

 than to try to retain for future generations old features of churches 

 which had been or were to be restored. The report was adopted. The 

 number of the committee is to be increased to 15. 



Mr. RICHARDSON mentioned the editorship of the rainfall 

 returns, which had been vacated by Mr. Stevenson Henshaw 

 in consequence of his departure from the county. A 

 successor had been found in the Rev. H. H. Tilney Bassett, 

 of Whitchurch, Blandford, who had kindly consented to 

 undertake the office. A vote of thanks to Mr. Henshaw r , 

 coupled with good wishes for his future career at Welling- 

 borough, was passed by the members. 



EXHIBITS. 



By the President : (1) A collection of Egyptian and Greek 

 gold ornaments, and Egyptian glass and other beads. A 

 gold finger ring was in the form of a snake, the head and 

 the tail being on each side of the bezel, \vhich was set with a 

 carbuncle. This ring had been assigned by Professor Petrie 

 to the late Ptolemaic period in Egypt, between B.C. 200 and 

 B.C. 50. Two pairs of ear rings were of twisted gold wire, 

 ending in bull's heads. One expert believed them to be 

 Greek, of the 4th century B.C., while another authority 

 classified them as late Ptolemaic. The piece of gold bracelet 

 had been thought to be Greek, or, alternatively, Roman. 



