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county on two of the points above mentioned viz., Prehistoric Monuments, 

 and the Flowering of Plants and Appearance of Birds, Insects, &c. 



ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CURATOR OF THE COUNTY MUSEUM, H. Moule, 

 Esq., of additions to the collection during 1886, This, in the absence of 

 Mr. Moule, was read by the Secretary. Amongst the specimens illustrative 

 of the Natural History of the county were a tooth of Pliosaurus Grandis, 

 presented by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell ; a series of cubes of various Purbeck 

 stones, presented by Mr. G. Burt, as the nucleus of a collection of the 

 building stones of the county ; a fine skin of a Royston Crow was pre- 

 sented by Mr. T. B. Groves, of Weymouth. 



Several valuable additions had been made to the collection of Dorset 

 Antiquities. Amongst them were a series of worked flints from Wool 

 Barrow, presented by the Rev. 0. P. Cambridge ; a large collection of 

 flints from the neighbourhood of Cranborne, presented by T. Wake Smart, 

 M.D. ; a fine kelt from Winterborne Thompson, presented by Mr. House ; 

 a collection of urns Romano-British vases and various objects from 

 Jordan Hill and tumuli of the county, the property of the late Charles 

 Warne, and added to the Warne collection already in the Museum ; a fine 

 bronze dagger and other objects from Boveridge, presented by Mr. 

 Brouncker ; an iron axe head from Bloxworth ; a Roman vase from Alton 

 Pancras ; fragments from the encaustic tile pavement of Shaftesbuiy 

 Abbey, presented by the Dowager Marchioness of Westminster ; mediaeval 

 embroidery from Wool Church, lent by the Vicar and Churchwardens. 



OF BOOKS RELATING TO DORSET the following additions had been made 

 during the year : Bibliothica Dorsetiensis, presented by the Rev. Nigel 

 W. Gresley ; Janson's Map of Dorset, 1629, presented by G. Troyte- 

 Bullock, Esq. ; Iter Britannica, Mr. T. B. Groves ; Monumenta Historica 

 Britannica, Mr. E. R. Pearce-Edgcumbe ; An 18th Century Presentment of 

 the Manor of Fordington, by Lieut.-General Henning, C.B. ; The Lepi- 

 doptera of Dorset, by Mr. C. W. Dale. 



NON-DORSET NATURAL HISTORY : Foreign fossils, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell; 

 Trilobites, Bohemia, by S. S. Buckman ; Prehistoric Bones and Teeth, 

 Wales, Canon Bankes ; Norwegian Elk's Head, Colonel Hambro, M.P. 



BOOKS PRESENTED TO THE LIBRARY, in addition to the above : 

 Picturesque Palestine, 4 vols. ; Social Life in Egypt, 1 vol. ; several 

 volumes, in addition to his previous gift, by Mr. T. Galpin ; Museum 

 Catalogues, from the Trustees of the British Museum ; Indian Botany, by 

 Lieut. -Colonel Bingham ; a facsimile of the 16th Century Grants of Arms, 

 Rev. F. J. Colby ; Life of Sir W. Fairbairn, Hon. and Rev. Spring Rice. 



The President then read a paper describing the discovery of a Roman 

 Road which had been found during the previous autumn, and which he 



