FIRST WINTER MEETING. XXVll. 



(2). A blue and white jasper ware medallion, dated 

 1789, representing " Hope addressing Peace, Labour, 

 and Plenty," made by Josiah Wedgwood from clay sent 

 to him by Sir Joseph Banks from Botany Bay. 



BY MR. HENRY SYMONDS : 



(1). A copy of the original edition (1676) of " Observa- 

 tiones Medicae," by Thomas Sydenham, M.D., of Wynford 

 Eagle. 



(2). A half crown of the Civil War period, attributed to 

 the mint at Sandsfoot Castle. 



(3). Greek bronze coins of Syracuse and of Magna Grecia, 

 of the 4th and 3rd centuries B.C. 



BY MR. A. POPE : 



A photograph of the head of a cross which had been dug 

 up in a garden adjoining the old manor house at Fiddleford. 



BY MRS. THOMAS PEARCE : 



A number of ancient Egyptian articles which had been 

 dug up in a tomb at Luxor, including a necklace, a few 

 scarabs, and a little bronze vase. 



BY CANON FLETCHER : 



Sketches and plans of an ancient building on the Kingston 

 Lacy Estate, on which he read the following notes : 



Nearly 2$ miles from Wimborne, on the road to Badbury Rings, is 

 an interesting old building. It goes by the name of " The Lodge Farm," 

 but is now a labourer's cottage. The walls, the roof, the windows, and 

 other details, bear witness to considerable antiquity, and seem to 

 speak of an ecclesiastical origin. Nothing is known of its history, and 

 there can only be conjecture as to its original purpose. There may, 

 it is true, be some ancient documents hidden away at Kingston Lacy, 

 or in the Estate Office, which would supply some information about it ; 

 bat, for obvious reasons, the muniment room on a large estate is not 

 always easy of access. And, moreover, the Bankes family, to whose 

 representative Kingston Lacy belongs, only purchased the estate in 

 the middle of the seventeenth century. 



