XXXVI. SECOND WINTER MEETING. 



his lecture with many specimens in flower or in fruit, some of 

 which had been kindly sent by Lord Ilchester from his sub- 

 tropical garden at Abbotsbury. 



Captain Acland read extracts from a paper by Mr. Henry 

 Symonds on the silk industry in Wessex, more particularly 

 in Sher borne, during the eighteenth century. The Field 

 Club's collection of books, deeds, and papers relating to the 

 subject was laid upon the table. 



The President read a portion of the paper by Mr. E. W. 

 S wanton on Dorset land-shells in the museum at Haslemere. 



The Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge had been unable to finish 

 his paper on new and rare Arachnida noted in 1915, and 

 therefore it was taken as read. 



Mr. W. de C. Prideaux discussed the Mohun brasses in 

 the old church at Fleet, and illustrated his notes with a 

 series of rubbings. 



The foregoing papers are printed on subsequent pages 

 of this volume.* 



* At a later date Mr. Pickard-Cambridge fovind it impossible, owing 

 to ill health, to complete his notes rn Arachnida; consequently the 

 printing of the paper is postponed until next year. 



