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of the Dyke in the direction of West Woodyates, crossing the 

 present Salisbury road and the Roman road. The third by 

 the destruction of that part of the rampart which lies between 

 the Salisbury road and its western extension, and by the substitu- 

 tion of another rampart a little to the north, over ground more 

 strategically defensive. A restoration of the whole line of the 

 Dyke, including the entrenchments made at all three periods, was 

 made at this time. 



Pre-historic remains have been frequently met with in Portland. 

 Bones of animals usually associated with man are found in the 

 fissures which intersect the limestone beds. An interment of which 

 I spoke at our last meeting, and which I conceive to be of great 

 antiquity, was found in one of these fissures at the Verne quarries. 

 My intelligent friend, Mr. Wallis, of Mallams, Portland, lately sent 

 me a sketch of a grave in which was the body of a human being in 

 a crouching position. It was accompanied with two stone spindles, 

 three large round stones (not pebbles), weights probably of a 

 loom, also a rudely worked piece of Kimmeridge shale. The 

 remarkable underground bee-hive chambers which are sometimes 

 uncovered by the quarrymen seem to have been store-places for 

 corn in the days of plunder and insecurity. 



The accession of the eminent biologists, Professor Allman, 

 F.R.S., and Doctor Alfred Russell Wallace, L.L.D., as members of 

 our Club is a subject for much congratulation to myself, as I feel 

 sure it is to every member. Professor Allman, late President of 

 the Linnsean Society, has contributed largely during his long and 

 laborious life to the science of biology. His special attention has 

 been turned towards the early forms of animal life the Protozoa 

 and Polyzoa. His two voluminous folio memoirs on the Fresh 

 Water Polyzoa and Hydroida are master-pieces of research and 

 description. 



Dr. Allman's anniversary address as President of the Linnsean 

 Society in 1876 on " Recent Researches among some of the 

 Sarcode Organisms " has removed some of the obstructions which 

 obscured the knowledge of the early stages of life from the 



