SECOND WINTER MEETING. XXX111. 



EXHIBITS. 



By Captain Acland a manuscript by William Barnes, 

 entitled " Edge Tools in Early Britain." which had been 

 presented by Canon Mansel-Pleydell to the Dorset County 

 Museum. The manuscript will be printed in full on a later 

 page of this volume. 



By Mr. Henry Symonds. (1) A photograph of a carved oak 

 panel, dated 1623, representing incidents in a doctor's prac- 

 tice. This panel, which is reproduced in the annexed plate, was 

 formerly owned by a medical man at Poole and had been 

 in the possession of his family for eighty years, during which 

 time they had lived in that town. It was bought in the 

 " seventies " by Mr. William Fenwick, of Arlington. New 

 Jersey, U.S.A., who sold it through an agent to an unknown 

 purchaser. Since the foregoing note was written the editor 

 has been informed that the original panel was acquired by 

 the Royal College of Surgeons and is now in their house in 

 Lincoln's Inn Fields. (2) A little booklet containing six 

 stanzas written by William Barnes in 1872 "for the benefit 

 of the Bridport School of Art." The lines are now reprinted 

 as they do not appear in the collected editions of the poet's 

 works. The exhibited copy given to Mr. Symonds by our 

 member, Mr. J. T. Stephens, contaias a contemporary 

 photograph of the ship-bnilding yard, from which the last 

 new vessel was launched in 1879. 



" BRIDPORT HARBOUR." 



Hill-warded haven, creek well found 

 To sailors on thy stormy shore ; 

 When 'midst the waters' deaf 'ning roar 

 They step on this thy peaceful ground, 

 As blest with happy homes at hand 

 Or strangers on a foreign land. 



