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ftimilar monument* in Malta, and the English stone eircl** of Stonehenge, 

 Avebnry, &., which he *aid were made and eat in the same way. 

 Nothing was definitely nettle*] at the meeting a* to any future work on 

 the harrow, hot it was erentnally left in the hand* of General Pitt 

 River*, who proponed to investigate it in the most elaborate manner 

 at hi* own eo%t, and the trench was some month* later, by bis direction, 

 fillftd in, nntil he wan able to cany out hi* intention*. 



The party then walked aero** to Bnzbnry Camp, about half a mile 

 distant, which i* Mtrronnded by a very slight earthwork. Pottery was 

 present in considerable abundance and many Romano- Briti*h ftherdAcoald 

 he found on the *arface of the ground within the camp, Mr, Cnnnington 

 stated that he had made several excavation* there and found plenty of 

 Roman remain* of pottery, including one piece of Samian, and other 

 article*. He added that the entrance through the vallum at the Month 

 end wax protected by a abort external earthwork. He considered that 

 Bozbury wa* undoubtedly simply a Roman temporary camp, of which 

 there were plenty of similar example* in Dorset, 



The church of Tarrant Rn*bton wa* next visited, on which the Rev, 

 J, Fenny, the Rector, read a paper, which will be found in full at \>. tt 

 of the present volume. After leaving the church Mr, Penny'* large and 

 interesting Geological and Natural History Museum wa* inspected. 



The collection consist* of fossils, illustrating, in larger or smaller 

 numbers, the Dudley, Coal, Lias, Oolite, and Chalk formations and the 

 Tertiary beds on the Hampshire coast. It contains also numerous and 

 choice representative minerals of all kinds, whilst there are cases and 

 drawers filled with shells, coral*, birds, butterflies, and moths. Among 

 the more interesting objects may be mentioned a collection of cut and 

 polished ammonites and nautili from the Oolite between Sherborne ami 

 Yeovil, which could not easily be surpassed ; pear encrinites from 

 Bradford-on-Avon ; a tree fern (Caulf/ptcri* punctala) from the Greensand 

 of Shaltesbury ; marsnpites from the Upper Chalk, and a perfect 

 Fholfidamya deciuaata from the Lower ; and an excellent aeries of 

 Barton Tertiary shells, collected by Mr, Keeping, Curator of the 

 Cambridge Geological Museum, Of rarer birds the glossy ibis is 

 represented by a beautiful pair from Christcburch ; there is a specimen 

 of the spotted crake from Childe Okeford mentioned by Mr, Mansel- 

 Pleydell in his " Birds of Dorset," and a chough from Lnlworth. The 

 more uncommon sorts of owls, hawks, and waders are also well 

 represented. 



After leaving Mr, Penny's the party drove to Tarrant Crawford 

 Church and Abbey Barn, which they inspected under the guidance of 



