year amounting to 50 10s. due from 70 members) ag-ainst 

 the bills paid and those still outstanding, 108 Is. 5d., there 

 was a balance against the Club of 7 11s. This deficit, 

 together with the sum needed to defray the outstanding bills, it 

 was confidently expected would be more than met very 

 shortly by getting in arrears, and subscriptions for the present 

 year. 



The Secretary presented Vol. V. of the Proceedings of the 

 Club, just published, and copies of which were subsequently 

 distributed to all those members present who had paid their 

 subscriptions. 



The President, Secretary, and Treasurer were re-elected 

 unanimously for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Cunnington read a paper on " Ancient Dorchester," 

 illustrated by a plan of the .Roman Durnovaria. Mr. Charles 

 Rickman also read a paper on the fossils and bones found at 

 Bryanstone during the excavation of a large Reservoir on Lord 

 Portmau's estate. An adjournment was then made to Fording- 

 ton Church, where a paper upon it was read by Mr. H. J. 

 Moule, and from thence, after refreshments at Mr. Alfred 

 Pope's, to Maliubury Eiugs, or the Amphitheatre, which was 

 explained in a paper read by Mr. A. Pope, a discussion subse- 

 quently taking place on some points, between Mr. Cunnington 

 and Professor Buckman. The party then returned to inspect 

 the Museum, and thence to dinner at the King's Arms Hotel, 

 after which the Secretary (in the absence of the Rev. AV. 

 Barnes) presented a copy of Mr. Barnes's paper on " The 

 Invasion of the south-west of Britain by Vespasian," but 

 declined to read it, not being up in the Welsh or British 

 tongues. Mr. Thomas Hardy then read a short paper on some 

 interesting Roman and other remains lately found by himself 

 during the excavation of a building site in Fordington Field. 

 The Secretary (in the absence of the Author) gave the substance 

 of a paper intended to have been read by Mr. Edwin Lees, 

 the President of the Worcester Naturalists' Club, " On a new 



