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art, belonging to Mr. K. Cornish and Mr. Knapp. And, quite recently, 

 we have had for a short time the first muster roll of the Dorsei 

 Itegiment of Yeomanry, and two maps relating to preparations for the 

 expected defence of the county in 1794, all lent by Mr. Fetherstonhaugh 

 Frampton. We are brought by this loan to the Dorset department of 

 the Museum, in -which we have had another also — namely, that 

 of a small bronze bull found near Bridport by Mr. Kails, and 

 lent by him through the good offices of Mr. W. B. Stone. We 

 now come to gifts to the Dorset Museum proper. In the natural 

 history department there are few acquisitions to record, but 

 some of them are very good. The Rev. Sir T. H. B. Baker 

 has presented several valuable specimens of fossil wood from 

 Portland, especially an extremely fine root-end of a tree. Mr. White 

 at the same time gave a choice polished specimen of silicified Isastnca 

 oblonga. This, strangely enough, wPS found to be part and parcel of a 

 specimen in the Damon collection. The two portions are now cemented 

 together. We have received an inconspicuous, but rare, fossil foraminifer, 

 Wchbina irregularis, adhering to a Gryphcca dilatata, from the Jordan 

 Hill Oxford Clay. This specimen was found and given by a total strangei-, 

 Mr. Formby, of Batii, who was on a passing visit at Weymouth. The 

 President has presented a rare fossil fish, Pholidophorus brevis ; and Mr. 

 Fetherstonhaugh Frampton and the Hon. Ivan Campbell good specimens 

 of Lignite. The Council have bought, through the interest of Mr. 

 Andrews, of Swanage, a very fine fossil fish, Lepidotus minor. But 

 probably the most interesting addition to the collections of fossils 

 or quasi fossils consists of the jaw and other bones of a 

 beaver found in a cavity in the chalk close to the Stour, near 

 Blandford. These were presented by our friend, Mr. Galpin. The 

 Dorset Natural History recent collections have been enriched by 

 the gifts of a Solitary Snipe (Scolopax major) from Mr. Crane and a 

 9|lb. trout fiom Major Clapcott. We come now to notice Dorset 

 antiquities lately given. Let me say, as I fear that I always have to say 

 on these occasions, that the list of such gifts is vastly shorter than it 

 should be, considering the claims of the County Museum to be the home 

 ot county finds. But, on the other hand, our twelvemonth's acquisitions, 

 if few, include some very good things. Taking these roughly in order of 

 their reception, I first record a flint-scraper from Buzbury given by Mv. 

 Hogg. At first sight it looks like an ordinary hollow scraper. But, in 

 fact, it is a curiosity, from its hollow edge being ground. A smooth flint, 

 on which it seems to fit, was found near it. Just possil)ly it may have 

 been used tor grinding by the hel]) of sand. Another worked Hint— viz., 



