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issued for last year by the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, by the Hants 

 and Warwickshire Field Clubs, and by the British Association. Again, 

 Mr. Bastick presented Vol. XXXV. of Sussex Arch.ieological Collections,' 

 and Dr. Miles, of Rome, Vol. II., No. 4 of the Journal of the 

 Archaeological Society of that city, containing very important papers. 

 We have also received several of the gifts for which we annually have to 

 thank the trustees of the British Museum namely, certain numbers of 

 their splendid catalogues and monographs. Another valuable gift which 

 may here be fitly notified consists of all the 12 volumes of the first series 

 and the first five volumes of the second series of Notes and Queries. 

 This gift, with not a few other books, came from Miss Ashley and 

 Madame de Satge. Now we are eagerly wishing for the advent of some 

 other kind friend who may be moved to fill up the hiatus in our series 

 between 1857, the date of the last complete early volume, and 1886, with 

 which year our recent series begins. Of other books, we may here name 

 the Parallel Bible, giving the authorised and revised versions side by side, 

 and a volume containing selections from Holy Scripture. This also is a 

 parallel edition, but here the versions are Korean and Chinese. These 

 books were given by Mr. Hansford and the Right Rev. Bishop Moule 

 respectively. The latter has also given a photograph of the great tidal 

 bore in the Tsien-Tang river below Hangchow. In this category there 

 should be a record of the gift of the History of Dorchester, America, by 

 Dr. Gushing, of that town, or rather of that suburb of Boston, Mr. 

 Bastick has given ten large engravings of Roman antiquities, and Mr. A. 

 Bankes has lent a Russian railway guide for England. Gifts and loans 

 to the Museum itself, and not connected with Dorset, have not been 

 many. It may suffice to mention the following : A large globe fish from 

 Miss Ashley and Madame de Satge, a young alligator from Mr. Whitby, 

 a gavial lent by the Rev. E. P. Cambridge, an African straw hat of 

 wonderful size from Mr. Beavis, and several things from British Guiana 

 given by the Rev. 0. A. Hodgson. We turn now to gifts, &c., relating to 

 Dorset, and, as in the former section, we begin with the library, although 

 there is here little to record. First and foremost, we must name Vol. XV. 

 of the Proceedings of the Dorset Field Club and Mr. Mansel-Pleydell's 

 Flora of Dorset, second edition, presented respectively by the club and by 

 the President thereof. Next we would record four acquisitions specially 

 relating to burgesses of Dorchester. Taking them in order of date, the 

 first is a book called " The Way to the Tree of Life." This is a treatise 

 on the reading of the Holy Bible, written by the Rev. J. White, rector 

 of Holy Trinity and St. Peter's here, and a leading Puritan. The copy 

 in question is a well-bound one, and was bought both on account of its 



