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Romano-British pottery works. The hope was expressed 

 that an investigation might be possible after the troops had 

 vacated the camp. 



The President gave notice that a resolution would be moved 

 at the next annual meeting to add to Rule 8 a proviso that the 

 original members of the Club, ten in number, should not be 

 liable for further subscriptions after the current year, while 

 retaining the privileges of ordinary members. 



Captain Acland said that a number of old papers relative to 

 the silk industry which had been established in Sherborne 

 for more than 150 years were kindly offered to the Museum 

 by Mr. Whitty Chandler and Messrs. J. and R. Willmott. 

 It was possible that some of the papers contained facts which 

 were of antiquarian interest, and therefore Captain Acland 

 suggested that the Editor of the Proceedings should be asked 

 to examine them with a view to obtaining materials for an 

 article on the early history of the silk throwsters of Sherborne. 

 Mr. Symonds thought that they were much indebted to the 

 donors for having thus afforded them an opportunity of 

 looking through the documents, and he undertook to carry 

 out the wish of the meeting. 



The President then referred to the question of the 

 customary summer meetings, and expressed the opinion of 

 the executive that it would not be fitting to hold them during 

 war time. It was unanimously resolved to leave the decision 

 in the hands of the Club's executive. 



Captain Acland, as treasurer of the Dewlish excavation 

 fund, having mentioned that there was a deficit with regard 

 to the work done in 1914, the sum of two guineas was voted 

 in aid. 



EXHIBITS. 



By the President, on behalf of Mr. Ronald D'O. Good : 

 two pressed specimens of the snake-tongue ranunculus 

 (ranunculus ophioglossifolius) which had been found by Mr. 

 Good in a marshy meadow within a few miles of Dorchester. 



