CONTENTS. 







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Index to Plates and Engravings . . . . . iv. 



Notice to Members . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v. 



List of Officers and Honorary Members vi. 



List of Members : . . , viil - 



List of New Members elected since the publication of Vol. XVII xix. 



The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 



during the Season 1896-7, by Nelson M. Richardson, Esq., B.A., F.E.S. .. xxi. 



Hon. Treasurer's Statement of Receipts and Expenditure from May 4th, 1896, to 



May llth, 1897 Ivi. 



Hon. Secretary's Accounts from May 1st, 1896, to May 1st, 1897 Ivii. 



Anniversary Address of the President, May 13th, 1897 lix. 



On the Fish of Dorset : Their Habits, Mode of Capture, &c.. by Frank J. B. 



Beckford, Esq. 1 



Newion Manor, by Sir J. C. Robinson 44 



Tarrant Rushton Church, by Rev. J. Penny 55 



An Account of the Albian Fossils lately discovered at Okeford Fitzpaine, 



Dorset, by R. Bullen Newton, F.G.S 66 



The Arms of Dorchester and Dorset, by Sir Robert Edgcumbe 100 



British Arachnida observed and captured in 1896, by Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 



M.A,, F.R.S., &c 108 



The Pagan-Christian. Overlap of the Wise Bird, with Dorset Illustrations, by 



Hy. Colley March, M.D., F.S.A 116 



Dorset Clothes-Moths and their Habits, by Nelson M. Richardson, B.A., F.E.S. . . 138 



On a New Specimen of the Mesozoic Ganoid Ksh, Pholidophorus, from the 



Oxford Clay of Weymouth, by Arthur Smith Woodward, F.L.S. . . . . 150 



Dorset Monthly Rainfall, 1856-95, by Henry Storks Eaton, Past President Royal 



Met. Soc. 153 



The Assistance of the Sun in Finding Traces of Destroyed Earthworks and 



Buildings, by H. J. Moule, M.A 169 



The Origin of the Vale of Marshwood and of the Greensand Hills of West 



Dorset, by A. J. Jukes Browne, B.A., F.G.S. . . 174 



Report on Observations of the First Appearances of Birds, Insects, &c., and the 

 First Flowering of Plants in Dorset during 1896, by Nelson M. Richardson, 

 B.A., F.E.S 185 



Returns of Rainfall, &c., in Dorset in 1896, by Henry Storks Eaton, Past 



President Royal Met. Soc 196 



