xiiv. 



The second paper was by the Rev. W. Miles Barnes on " Dorset and 

 King John, Notes on the Pipe Rolls of that Reign, supplemented and 

 illustrated by References to the Patent and Close Rolls of John's Reign." 



The third paper was by the Secretary, "Notes on Dorset Lepidoptera, 

 1892-3," at the end of -which he mentioned the progress -which had been 

 made in the arrangement of the two insect cabinets of 20 drawers each 

 lately purchased by the Museum, and expressed a hope that before long 

 there would be something like a collection of Lepidoptera (butterflies and 

 moths), and also other orders of insects to be seen in them. 



A discussion ensued on the abundance of wasps which had been general 

 in the past year, which had been alluded to in the paper. The Rev, O. P. 

 Cambridge said that in some places they were not numerous, but at 

 Bloxworth they were in abundance. About the beginning of September, 

 however, the wasps suddenly disappeared, and when the apple-picking 

 time came there was hardly a Avasp about, though a week or ten days 

 before they had had to fight with the wasps in order to gather a peach. 

 Why they ceased so suddenly he could not tell, as the weather continued 

 dry. The Rev. R. P. Murray said that at Shapwick the plague of wasps 

 lasted until well into October ; perhaps October 6th or 10th. The Rev. 

 O. M. Ridley said that at Charminster wasps were very scarce, whereas a 

 few miles away they swarmed. 



At this point the Rev. Sir Talbot Baker took the chair, the President 

 being obliged to leave the meeting. 



The next paper, on " Wareham, its Origin, and History," 

 read by Mr. E. Cunnington, called forth a good deal of discussion 

 as to what evidence existed of the presence of the Romans in 

 Wareham, Mr. Cunnington asserting that there was none. Sir Talbot 

 Baker thought that traces of Roman origin existed there, independently 

 of the finding of Roman remains, in the square form of the circumvallation 

 and the position of the two principal streets, at right angles to each other. 

 The Rev. O. P. Cambridge stated that he believed that little or no 

 investigation for Roman or other remains had been made there by 

 digging. Mr. Cunnington mentioned the absence of any building stone 

 in the neighbourhood as a difficulty and did not consider that any 

 conclusion could be drawn from the position of the streets, as Wareham 

 had been destroyed by fire three or four times, and the modern streets 

 might probably run quite diflferently from the original ones. This was 

 often the case in towns, and in Dorchester, for instance, he believed that 

 no one but himself knew where the Roman east gate was. It was not in 

 Durngate-street, in the middle of which had been found the remains of a 

 Roman villa. Mr. Moule suggested that as in the Roman town of 



