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the meal poured. It is difficult to be sure of the date of this quern, but 

 it is most likely mediaeval. A pair of iron armlets has been given and a 

 pair of bronze ones lent by Mr. Foster aud Mr. Hogg respectively. Both 

 pairs are from Dorchester. Mr. Cunnington has presented us with an 

 incense cup and other barrow pottery, and also some worked flints, these 

 being from a very remarkable fissure near Portesham.* Mr. Cree, too, 

 through Mr. Cunnington, has given barrow pottery, and also has pre- 

 sented the brass fitting of the lower end of a dagger sheath of, perhaps, 

 the 15th century. It is from Court House, Owermoigne. By exchange 

 the Museum has acquired from Sir Robert Edgcumbe a valuable col- 

 lection of coins, gathered together at Dorchester. There are also a few 

 other things, especially an Agnus Dei seal. Of gifts not connected with 

 Dorset only a few can be here recorded. Admiral Church has sent us 

 specimens of Pholas-pierced stone and Teredo-pierced wood ; Captain 

 Pretor, a Narwhal's horn ; Captain Rudyerd, an Egyptian stone ball 

 and a fine piece of cat's-eye asbestos ; the Rev. James Cross, bark 

 and cones of Sequoia gigantea ; and Mr. Wills, a very strange seed 

 vessel, something like that of Martynia. In the library we have a few 

 additions. Sir R. Edgcumbe has given his Family Records ; Mr. M. 

 Guest has given, what was before a loan, a curious memorandum book 

 relating to Woodbury Hill Fair ; the Rev. W. M. Barnes, his valuable 

 transcripts of ten Civil War Tracts ; Mr. Boswell Stone, " Memories," 

 by the late Mrs. Stone, the Sale Catalogue ot Merly Library, and a 

 Weymouth Guide ; Mr. Bastick, Cook's Description of Dorset and a 

 History of Guildhall ; Mr. Pearce, Pinnock's History of Dorset ; Lady 

 Meux, A Life of Alexander the Great ; The Field Club, their Proceed- 

 ings, Vol. XVI., the Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 

 Vol. III., parts 2, 3, and 4, and the Report of the British Association for 

 1895 ; and the Trustees of the Biitish Museum, several volumes of their 

 books, especially of the magnificent Catalogue of Birds. The Rev. H. C. 

 Reichardt presented a photograph of a small porcelain bottle taken by 

 him from the bandages of a mummy. This bottle has caused great 

 controversy. Such are the chief acquisitions since April 30th, 1895. 

 Choice is difficult, and it is trusted that omissions may be pardoned. 

 The notice of the year's work in the Museum must begin with a hearty 

 word of gratitude for the untiring and quite priceless help given by the 

 Secretary and Mrs. Richardson in arranging and naming the now con- 

 siderable collection of moths and butterflies. Such work cannot be 

 rightly done by any hands but those of an expert. The chief labour of 



* See Proc, xvii., 194. 



