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illustrated by a series of excellent diagrams of several of the leading forms, 

 which were drawn by Mrs. E. M. Mansel-Pleydell, and were hung around the 

 walls. A chart had also been prepared, giving a list of all the genera and 

 species of fossil Keptilia hitherto discovered in Dorset, and mentioning the 

 particular bed and locality where each species was found. 



The Eev. 0. P. Cambridge read a paper (given in extenso at p. 127) on an 

 "Ancient Hour Glass and Stand in East Hope Parish Church, Shropshire." 

 The Secretary added a note on a glass and stand in Holwell Church, Dorset. 



Luncheon was served at the King's Arms at 2 p.m. 



The Secretary exhibited some green balls, which he stated were rare, and of the 

 origin of which but little was apparently known. They were found by Colonel 

 Stuart in the island of South Uist in August last 1887. They were taken from 

 a freshwater loch, where the bottom for several square yards, at a depth of 

 3 or 4 feet, was covered with them. They varied in size from half-an-inch to 

 3 or 4 inches in diameter. In some instances a smaller ball lay inside a larger. 

 A paper had been read before the Royal Society of Edinburgh descriptive of 

 these balls, and it appeared that though other localities were mentioned in 

 the British Islands where these balls were known to exist on subsequent 

 investigation they proved false. Ellesmere, in Shropshire, had been given as 

 a locality, but as yet he (the Secretary) could obtain no definite account of their 

 occurrence from people in the neighbourhood. The question of the origin of 

 these balls hinged on two points were they produced by a freshwater alga, 

 which always assumed this mode of growth ; or did they arise from some current 

 in the loch forming a whirlpool, which produced them. The President had 

 suggested the latter as their origin, and, in the loch in which they were found, 

 a current existed which would probably produce a whirlpool. On the other 

 hand, in the paper above alluded to, the late Professor Dickson had mentioned 

 that the alga of which these balls were formed assumed that mode of growth. 

 Mr. Richardson said he had found similar balls on the sea coast in Wales, 

 which were formed of a kind of fibre rather thicker than horse hair. 



Dr. Turner read a paper "On the Church of St. Clement's and some other 

 Antiquities of the Town of Poole," given in this volume at p. 79. 



A paper was read by M. G. Stuart on " The Construction of a Naturalist's 

 Calendar for the County of Dorset," which is given at p. 130. A discussion 

 ensued on this subject, and it was suggested that no time should be lost in 

 commencing to make observations on the various phenomena mentioned, and, 

 since the year had already begun, the schedules prepared by the Royal 

 Meteorological Society for this purpose should be obtained if possible and 

 circulated in the county as a prelimary step. 



The Secretary then read a paper on "Some Church Plate in the Parish 

 of Shroton." The object of this paper was to obtain any notes of rare or 

 interesting Church plate existing in the county to which attention had lately 

 been directed by the return which the Bishop had caused to be made of Church 

 plate throughout the Diocese. 



