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.pecies WM fwy -arc. being almost extinct in Britain 

 tad it had not previously been identified in the county. A 

 short note on the subject can be seen in the Botanical Journal 

 1014, p. 277. 



By Mr. H-nry Symonds : (1) a parchment roll dated 

 1663 giving the names of the tenants of the manor of 

 Wellington, Somerset. (2) a Bible of 1680, Latin text, 

 with entries as to the family of Crosse, one of whom had been 

 inoculated by Dr. Smith, of Wrington, in 1776, about twenty- 

 five years before Jenner practised vaccination. (3) the 

 Bishop of Salisbury's survey of the manor of Loders and 

 Bothenhampton in 1785. (4) a deed of " recovery " dated 

 1739, with the seal of the Court of Common Pleas attached. 

 (5) Two Bridport sermons, printed in 1672 and 1769 

 respectively. 



By Canon Fletcher : the M.S. of Richard Russell's history 

 of \Vimborne, in two volumes. This manuscript was of 

 especial interest, as its contents were incorporated bodily in 

 the Wimborne section of Hutchins' History of Dorset. Richard 

 Russell, who died in 1772, signed the preface, wherein 

 he acknowledged his indebtedness to his father, Nicholas, 

 and to others. Nicholas, who died in 1763, had 

 opportunities for first-hand investigation, seeing that he was 

 custodian of the town's documentary records, in which 

 office he had succeeded his father, Robert Russell. 



By Captain Ac land : A " puzzle " cup of brown glazed w r are 

 which originally had six handles, but now four only. Such 

 cups were known to have been made in west country potteries 

 during the 17th and 18th centuries, but this example was 

 thought to be of Staffordshire ware. 



By Mr. E. A. Rawlence : (1) Speed's map of Ireland, 1610, 

 printed on satin. (2) a 16th century plan, on vellum, of 

 Queen Elizabeth's route from Greenwich to Tilbury, showing 

 the Thames defences against the Armada. 



By the Rev. C. A. Phillips : One of two stone corbels, in 

 the form of an angel's head, recently dug up in the church- 

 yard of Okeford Fitzpaine. 



