FIRST WINTER MEETING. XXXI. 



estate by extravagance and the lavish entertainment of 

 Queen Elizabeth at Basing House. The document pledged 

 the farm, &c., of Portesham. 



By Captain Acland A Bradshaw's railway map of 1851, 

 showing the South Western railway with its terminus at 

 Dorchester. At that date there was no line to Weymouth, 

 as the Great Western railway did not extend beyond Fro me. 



PAPERS. 



Mr. RAWLENCE read a paper on Folk-lore reminiscences 

 concerning man and beast in Dorset. 



Canon Fletcher told the history of " The man in the wall *' 

 at Wimborne Minster. 



Captain Acland read selections Jtrom his notes on Mr. E. 

 Cunnington's records of barrows opened in Dorset between 

 1879-1890. 



Mr. L. Richardson's paper on the stratigraphical distri- 

 bution of inferior-oolite vertebrates was read in part by the 

 President. 



The four papers are printed on later pages of this volume. 



