CONTENTS. 



List of Members . . . . . . . . . . . . v. 



Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ix. 



Memoir . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi. 



The President's Address . . . . . . . . . . 1 



Some Account of the Courts of Law holden in Weymouth and Melcombe 



Regis in the 16th and 17th centuries, by T. B. Groves, Esq. .. 15 

 Notes 011 some Cornbrash Sections in Dorset, by the Rev. H. H. Wood, 



F.G.S., &c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 



Note on a G-avial Skull from the Cornbrash of Closworth, by J. C. 



Mansel-PleydeU, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S ......... 28 



The Maples in Sherborne Park, by Edwin Lees, Esq., F.G.S., &c. 33 



A Note on the Dog Violet, by J. C. Mansel-PleydeU, Esq., F.G-.S., &c. 36 

 On a Bracelet of supposed Saxon Workmanship, by James Buckman, 



F.G.S., fec. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 



On the Sparassis crispa, by Edwin Lees, Esq., F.L.S., &c. . . 40 



Notes on a Roman Villa at Thornford, by James Buckman, F.G.S., &c. 41 



Notes on the Antiquities of Abbotsbury, by the Rev. G. H. Penny, &c. 50 



The Lepidoptera of Portland, by C. W. Dale, Esq. . . . . . . 54 



On the Fossil Beds of Bradford Abbas and its Vicinity, by James 



Buckman, F.G.S., &o. . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 



On the Species of Brachiopoda from the Inferior Oolite of Bradford 



Abbas and its Vicinity, by Thomas Davidson, Esq., F.R.S., &e., &c. 73 



On some Old Glass Bottles from Thornford, by James Buckman . . 89 

 Poem, by the Rev. W. Barnes .. .. .. .. ..93 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Frontispiece, to face page . . . . . . . . . . xi. 



Gavial Skull from Cornbrash.. .. .. .. .. 28 



Declining Maple . . . . . . . . . . 33 



Knotty Maple .. .. .. .. .. .. 34 



Viola sylvatica V. Rechenbachiana . . . . . . . . 36 



canina . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 



A Bracelet, Saxon or Roman . . . . . . . . . . 38 



Sparassis crispa . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 



Rhynchonella, &c. ,, IV. \ 

 Waldheimia, &c. III. I 



Ditto II. ...... 88 



Terebratula, Plate I. / 

 Marginal Woodcuts. 



