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the earthwork happened to be occupied by another race or more, 

 their occupation will be indicated in the silting by the pottery in 

 chronological order. Charts are exhibited on the walls of Farnham 

 Museum delineating these strata. Occasionally the lower impinges 

 upon the upper, owing to the leniency of the conqueror, 

 and the non-extirpation of the conquered, leading to a gradual 

 amalgamation. The pottery of the Roman period in Dorsetshire is 

 chiefly Romano-British. Next summer I hope to read the history 

 of the Bagber-barrow more clearly, when I shall adopt General 

 Pitt-Rivers' plan of excavating by parallel sections instead of per- 

 pendicular. 



FRESH RECORDS OF PLANTS. 



Atropa (L.). A. Belladonna (L.) G. St. Alban's Head, under 

 cliff, Mr. Eustace Bankes. Recorded in Pulteney's List of 1813 

 for Purbeck without a locality ; found only once since, by the 

 Rev. W. Heath, in the shrubbery of Morden Rectory, probably 

 introduced. Empetrum (L.) E. nigrum (L.) F. Parkstone, 

 Clarke. Crepis (L.) C. taraxicifolia (Thuill) F. Lepidinm (L.) 

 L. draba (L.) F. both found at the ballast quay, Goatarne, 

 Poole Harbour, by Miss Ella Smith. 



CONCHOLOGY. 



Helix. H. cantiana (L.) Spetisbury, Mr. Clement Reid. The 

 only other record of this shell is in Spetisbury also, by Pulteney 

 in 1799. Mr. Clement Reid has since found it on the hedge banks 

 between Stickland and Normandy Farm. 



ORNITHOLOGY. 



The supposition that migratory birds return from their winter 

 quarters to their breeding-grounds of the previous year is supported 

 by the appearance of two pairs of nightingales in a grove at What- 

 combe, where a pair had nested and brought up their brood the 

 previous year the last place one would expect for so retiring 

 and shy a bird to select, for the grove is only a very narrow strip 

 of land between a highway and a private road, and very much used. 



