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board which Sir T. Hardy served. The model belonged to him, and is 

 said to have been made with his own hands. For this gift we are 

 indebted to Mrs. Whittle. We now close this report, the report of a year 

 wherein the Museum has grown greatly richer in fossils, but which has 

 not brought very many antiquities into our cases. That reminds us to 

 say, as a last word, that Mr. Bankes' newly-designed cases are a success, 

 and afford room for many more Dorset antiques, which surely ought 

 rightly to find their way to the Dorset Museum." 



ELECTION OF OFFICERS. On the proposal of Mr. G. W. Floyer, 

 seconded by Mr. G. Mayo, Mr. Mansel-Pleydell was re-elected President- 

 It was proposed by Rev. J. S. Cope and seconded by Mr. E. Cunnington 

 that llev. O. P. Cambridge be re-appointed Hon. Treasurer ; and proposed 

 by Mr. A. Pope and seconded by Mr. A. Galpin that Mr. N. M. Richard- 

 son be re-elected Hon. Secretary. These propositions were unanimously 

 carried. 



SUMMER MEETINGS. No less than eight different places were proposed 

 for the summer meetings, from which were selected the following for 

 settlement by ballot. The number of votes received by each is appended : 

 Blandford, 22 ; Beaulieii, 21 ; Melbury, 21 ; Wimborne, 19 ; Salisbury, 

 IS ; Crewkerne, 2. The first four were therefore chosen. The meeting 

 at Blandford, at which it was proposed to open a long barrow and for 

 which the Club had received an invitation to tea from Sir William and 

 Lady Smith-Marriott, had eventually from several causes to be postponed 

 until 1896. An invitation from Sir R. and Lady Glyn to lunch at Gaunt's 

 House on the occasion of the meeting at Wiir> borne was accepted. 



EXHIBITS AND NOTES. BY MR. T. B. GROVES : 



(i.) Nodules of sand agglutinated by means of Pet-oxide of Iron, 

 found imbedded in the face of a sandpit at Higher Longfleet, near 

 Poole. 



BY MR. E. CUNNINGTON : 



(ii.) A plant of Dianthus armeria from Dorset, growing in a pot. 

 The President observed that this was the only Dorset representative of 

 the genus. 



(iii.) Two urns, one containing bones, from a barrow near Ower- 

 moigne, repaired by Mr. Cunnington and presented to the Museum by 

 Mr. W. Cree. 



(iv.) An incense cup and ends of stag horns, from a secondary 

 interment in a barrow opened by Mr, Cunnington and Rev. H. J. U. 

 Charlton, at Culliford Tree, on October 15th last. Three feet from the 

 apex they found a large cremation in a kind of oval cyst two feet long, 

 surrounded by stones. The stag horns were at the east and the incense 



