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Master conducted them over the Laboratory and Museum. Here were 

 exhibited Ichthyosaurian remains and the jaw of Megalosaurus Bucklandi, 

 which is described by Sir R. Owen in the Q.J.G.S., a fair collection 

 of oolitic fossils, and plants of the Carboniferous epoch, an ex- 

 cellent entomological collection, and various weapons of primitive 

 tribes. A formal meeting was then held, the President, J. C. Mansel- 

 Pleydell, Esq., being in the chair. The Rev. C. H. Mayo read the first 

 paper on "Yetminster Church," which will be found in full at p. 146 

 of this volume. The Head-Master, the Rev. E. M. Young, then 

 read a paper on "The History and External Growth of Sherborne 

 School." The President rose to return thanks to the writers of the above 

 papers, and to the Rev. E. M. Young for his kindness and hospitality in 

 entertaining the Society at Sherborne School. He said it might not be 

 known that Mr. Young was taking his holiday across the water, and had 

 left his family in Brittany and crossed the Channel in order to give the 

 Club the benefit of his company and experience that day. A vote of 

 thanks to the Rev. E. M. Young was most cordially responded to, after 

 which the party broke up at about eleven o'clock. 



The next morning, Friday, at about half -past nine, a party of members 

 left the Digby Hotel and drove to South Cadbury, a distance of about 

 eight miles. The weather was very fine and warm, and the day was 

 much enjoyed. On arriving at South Cadbury the members of the 

 Dorset Club, now numbering about 80, joined a party of 120 members of 

 the Somersetshire Archseological and Natural History, under the leader- 

 ship of their President for the year, H. Hobhouse, Esq., M.P., and of their 

 Secretary, the Rev. J. A. Bennett. The first place visited was Cadbury 

 Castle, a fine earthwork which rises very abruptly behind the little 

 village of South Cadbury. It is a Romano-British hill fortress, or 

 entrenched camp of refuge, whose only rival in this part of the country is 

 Maiden Castle, near Dorchester. The latter camp covers more ground 

 than Cadbury, is more regularly shaped, and possesses three trenches, 

 whilst Cadbury has but two ; but whilst the embankment or outer trench 

 of Maiden Castle slopes gradually upwards, Cadbury Camp rises abruptly 

 from almost level ground, and w r ould therefore present far greater 

 difficulties to an enemy attacking it than Maiden Castle. Many of the 

 Somerset Archaeologists, including the Secretary, consider, and not 

 without foundation, that Cadbury is the Camelot of King Arthur. 

 Certainly to the archaeologist, Cadbury and its neighbourhood is very 

 attractive. The Fosse-way passes not many miles distant ; almost every 

 hill, spring, and wood bear names derived from British and Saxon roots, 

 which tell of conflicts which have formerly taken place in the vicinity, 



