FIRST SUMMER MEETING. XXIX. 



incised inscription "John Stevens, 1734," and is known as 

 Charles Wesley's Cottage. The Jacobean Free School, the oldest 

 educational establishment in the Island, was pointed out, as, 

 too, was The Girt House, all that now remains of what was 

 once the spacious Jacobean building supposed to have been 

 erected by the Governor of the Island for the transaction of 

 official business. Here it was that Governor John Penn 

 resided while Pennyslvania Castle was being built. The Girt 

 House, or to speak more correctly, what remains of the Girt 

 House, is now divided into three tenements. The thatched 

 Carolean cottage, dated 1662, also attracted notice; and Mr. 

 Pentin pointed out in the stone porch of a cottage (79 

 Wakeham Street) the holy water stoup, which is said to have 

 been taken from the ruined church of St. Andrew at Church 

 Ope. The party was then conducted to the Chalklands Quarry, 

 where the PRESIDENT stated that 



All over the top of Portland one got fresh-water Purbeck strata, and, 

 therein, the dirt bed with fossil trees and cicads growing. The stumps of 

 trees were to be found in the dirt bed, and the trunks of trees lying in the 

 stratum above it. In the beds below were cicads only tree ferns. Then 

 came the Portland stone, a marine formation, in which were found marine 

 fossils, including the cimoliosaurus. Of this he had in his procession, at 

 Montevideo, a tooth, which, so far as he was aware, was unique. 

 Beneath the Portland stone was Portland sand, and, below that, 

 Kimmeridge clay. Geologists had called attention to the curious 

 formation called the " Weymouth saddle " an anticlinal. 



The party then descended to the Weares, where a short 

 paper was read by the PRESIDENT on "Insects and Plants 

 found in Portland" (Printed on pages 25 to 30 of this volume). 

 For further details his hearers were referred to a paper by the 

 late Mr. W. Bowles Barrett, printed in Vol. XXXIII. of the 

 Club's Proceedings*, and also to a paper which he had himself 

 written on the Butterflies and Moths of the Island, and which 

 would be found in Vol. XVI I. f of the same series. Mr. 

 Richardson pointed out that the development of the quarrying 

 industry, which had destroyed the great Neolithic burying 



* Proceedings of the Dorset N. H. and A . Field Club, Vol. XXXIII. pp. 96-143. 

 f Ibid. Vol. XVII, pp. 146-191. 



