CONTENTS. 



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Index to Plates and Engravings j v 



Notice to Members v 



List of Officers and Honorary Members 



List of Members 



VI. 



viii. 



List of New Members elected since the publication of Vol. XVI xix. 



The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 



during the Season 1895-6, by Nelson M. Richardson, B. A., F.E.S xxi. 



Hon. Treasurer's Statement of Receipts and Expenditure from May 14th, 1895, to 



May 4th, 1896 H. 



Hon. Secretary's Accounts from May 1st, 1895, to April 30th, 1896 lii. 



Special Donations of Plates, &c., towards Vol. XVII Hv. 



Anniversary Address of the President lv. 



On the Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Dorset from Henry III. to Richard III. 



(1216-1485), by Edward Alexander Fry 1 



On New and Rare British Spiders observed in 1895, by the Rev. O. Pickard- 



Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., &c, 55 



Evershot Church, by the Rev. P. H. Milne 64 



An Early Neolithic Kitchen-Midden and Tufaceous Deposit at Blashenwell, near 



Corfe Castle, by Clement Reid, F.L.S., F.G.S 67 



On a Whirlwind at Bloxworth, by the Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, M.A., 



F.R.S., &c 76 



Notes on the Churches of Gussage St. Michael's and Gussage All Saints', by the 

 Rev. Canon Sir Talbot H. B. Baker, Bart., with Description of the Bells of 

 Gussage All Saints', by Rev. W. Herbert Stent, Vicar 80 



On a New Dorsetshire Variety of Plantago Coronopus, Linn., by Edmund G. 



Baker, F.L.S 87 



On a Collection of Fossils from the Upper Greensand in the Dorset County 



Museum, by A. J. Jukes-Browne, B. A., F.G.S. 96 



St. Margaret's Hospital, Wimborne Minster, by Walter J. Fletcher 109 



On the Footprints of a Dinosaur (Iguanodon ?) from the Purbeck Beds of Swanage, 



by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, F.G.S., F.L.S 115 



Notes on Two Instances of Tenacity of Vegetable Life, by H. J. Moule, M.A. . . 123 



On a Romano-British Brick-kiln and a British Barrow at Bagber, Milton Abbas, 

 with an Historical Dissertation on Pottery and Brick -making, by J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell, F.G.S., F.L.S. .. .; 127 



Knowlton Church and Earthwork, by Rev. Canon Sir Talbot H. B. Baker, Bart. . . 135 



Water Analysis a Hundred Years Ago, by Thos. B. Groves .... 141 



A List of Portland Lepidoptera, by Nelson M. Richardson, B.A., F.E.S. . 146 



Flint Implements found at Portesham during 1894 and 1895, by E. Cunnington . 192 



The Geology of the Portesham District, by Rev. Osmond Fisher, F.G.S. . 194 

 Report on Observations of the First Appearances of Birds, Insects, &c., and the 

 First Flowering of Plants in Dorset during 1895, by Nelson M. Richardson, 



B.A., F.E.S 197 



Report on the Rainfall in Dorset during 1895, by H. S. Eaton, Past Pres. 



R. Met. Soc. 21 



