holy water stoup, found in the same situation as the window. He 

 mentioned that a paper on Wareham was offered by Mr. Bennett for 

 next winter. 



GENERAL BUSINESS. Mr. Moule stated that the fund collected from 

 the members of the Club (the amount not to exceed 5s. from each 

 member) as a donation from the Club towards the restoration of the 

 spire of Salisbury Cathedral was now closed and amounted to the sum of 

 31 10s. This sum was forwarded to the Dean of Salisbury and placed 

 to the credit of the Spire Restoration Fund. He also wished to call the 

 attention of the Club to the proposed demolition of a very picturesque 

 old inn the White Horse, at Maiden Newton. A subscription had been 

 started to prevent this, and he hoped the old inn might be preseived. 



Mr. Beckford asked for any information about fish found on the 

 Dorset coast which might be useful in the preparation of a paper on the 

 subject for next winter. 



PAPER BY MR. A. J. JUKES BROWNE, F.G.S. The Hon. Sec. read 

 a paper by this author " On a Collection of Fossils from the Upper 

 Greensand in the Dorset County Museum." This will be found at p. 96 

 of Proceedings, Vol. XVII. 



READING AND SILCHESTER MEETING. The first out-door meeting 

 was held on Tuesday and Wednesday, June 23rd and 24th, 1896, and 

 was attended by about 25 members of the Club, who were joined during 

 the first day by numerous members of the Berks Archaeological Society, 

 who were most energetic and hospitable in their reception of their 

 brother antiquarians and contributed very greatly to the pleasure and 

 success of the meeting. 



In the absence of the President his place was filled by the Rev. Sir 

 Talbot Baker. 



The party met at 2.45 p.m. at the Reading Museum, in which, besides 

 a variety of other collections, are placed the whole of the remains which 

 have been unearthed by the Society of Antiquaries from the excavations 

 at Silchester. 



Here Dr. Joseph Stevens, the Hon. Curator of the Museum, described 

 in detail the most important objects, especially alluding to the unique 

 Silchester collection, which was presented to Reading by the 

 Duke of Wellington. Dr. Stevens first pointed out the chief 

 features of the Romano-British city as planned on the large map, drew 

 attention particularly to the various features comprehending the 

 Forum, and mentioned to what parts of the buildings the different 

 capitals and columns in the collection referred to. These included the 



