Xliv. ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



make it impossible for us, under present conditions, to be able to issue such 

 bulky tomes as we were privileged to have during the years which 

 immediately preceded the war. 



CAPTAIN J. E. ACLAND, F.S.A., the Curator, read the following 

 " Notes on Acquisitions to the Dorset County Museum, May, 

 1919-20." 



Antiquities. (1). During the occupation of the Eastern slope of Pound- 

 bury Camp, Dorchester, by German Prisoners of War, many traces of 

 ancient burials were brought to light, due to disturbance of the soil for 

 roadmaking and drainage. Stone and lead coffins have been found, and 

 have been left in situ awaiting some future systematic investigation ; but 

 we have here, on loan from the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, to whom 

 the property belongs, a bronze wire tore of simple design found in the 

 grave of a child, and actually on the neckbone. (2). Major C. Stilwell has 

 presented to the Museum a Roman Amphora of the ordinary dark grey 

 ware, height eight inches, handles perfect, and with traces of the diagonal 

 line ornament. It was originally in his father's collection, and came 

 probably from the Swanage district. 



The Natural Science collections have acquired two specimens of Weaver 

 Bird nests, given by Miss K. Kindersley who brought them herself, one 

 from Ceylon, and the other from Simons Town, South Africa. The former 

 is a fine example of these interesting nests, measuring 3ft. 4in. in length. 

 I may also refer to the Key-hole Wasps' nest (Odynerus), found by Major 

 Platt in a reel of cotton on the window ledge of his house, Weymouth 

 Road, Dorchester, and dealt with in the very interesting paper by our 

 President read at the meeting in February last entitled " Colour Sense in 

 a Keyhole Wasp." 



We have received from the Earl of Ilchester two most interesting and 

 and valuable additions to the Library. (1) Henry Fox, First Lord Holland, 

 his Family and Relations, 2 Volumes, written by the Donor, a. welcome 

 addition to the series of works on cognate subjects already on our shelves, 

 written or edited by him, and (2) A fine folio Volume which should be 

 carefully examined to be fully appreciated of which I give the Title page, 

 and brief description " Lord Howard of Effingham, and the Spanish 

 "Armada, with exact facsimiles of 'The Tables of Augustine Ryther' 

 " A.D. 1590, and the engravings of the Hangings (tapestries) of The House 

 " of Lords by John Pine, A.D. 1739, with an introduction by Henry Yates 

 " Thompson. Printed for the Roxburghe Club, 1919." The introduction 

 is followed by Ryther's translation of "A discourse concerning the Spanish 

 Fleet invading England in the year 1588," written in Italian by Petruccio 

 Ubaldini, with eleven charts prepared by Robert Adams, depicting the 

 successive engagements in the Channel between the English fleet and the 



