XXXviii. THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING. 



The report of the Hon. Editor as to the contents of vol. 

 xxxvii, for 1916 was read. The members of the Field Club 

 were indebted to Mrs. Merrick-Head for kindly providing 

 the photographs and blocks used for reproducing the eighteen 

 old views of Portland, and to Canon Fletcher for giving two 

 blocks and the plates to illustrate his paper on " The man in 

 the wall at Wimborne Minster." The photographs for the 

 last named blocks were taken by Dr. E. K. le Fleming. 



Colonel and Mrs. Dickson were not able to report any 

 progress with the Dorset Photographic Survey, as photo- 

 graphy had ceased in consequence of the war. 



The Earthworks Sectional Committee and the Restored 

 Churches Committee were unable, for similar reasons, to 

 make any reports. 



The Numismatic Sectional Committee sent a short report 

 by Mr. Henry Symonds 



A few years ago a small hoard of Anglo-Saxon coins was found in the 

 county, but the precise locality was not disclosed for certain reasons. 

 A description of the find and a plate of the coins have been sent by me 

 to the Dorset County Museum library, through the kindness of the 

 author of the paper which appeared in Numismatic Chronicle, 4 Ser. 

 Vol. xv., p. 336. None of the coins were struck in Dorset mints, so far 

 as our present knowledge teaches us. The practice of placing the name 

 of the town on the reverse of the coin was not adopted until later in the 

 Saxon period than the date of this hoard. 



Captain Acland, as curator of the Dorset County Museum, 

 read the following notes on the objects acquired by the 

 Museum between May, 1915, and May, 1916 : 



During the past twelve months we have had many additions to the 

 various collections which need not be described individually. Some 

 other acquisitions have been exhibited and reported upon at the winter 

 meetings of the Field Club, and 1 will not therefore refer to them again. 

 In a different category, however, is the fine collection of corals presented 

 by Mrs. Merrick Head from Pennsylvania Castle, Portland. T am 

 informed that they were bought by her husband about the year 1872 at 

 a sale of the property of Mr. Wilson Saunders of Beigate. Mrs. Head 

 has not only given this beautiful collection to the Museum, but has 



