XX. IN MEMORIAM. 



to which I have alluded ; these works are the memorials of the 

 friends who have passed away. Nor will I forget that it was our 

 colleague, John Sydenham, who first broached the true theory of 

 the Kimmeridge coal money, at the Archaeological Congress at 

 Canterbury in September, 1844, which up to that time had remained 

 enveloped in the garb of mystery with which Miles had invested 

 it, but which then and there was torn away for aye. Nor can I 

 forget the intense interest which his clever essay on the Cerne 

 Giant, read at one of our private meetings, excited in the audience.* 

 Here I pause and conclude these remarks by adverting to the 

 principal object I had in view viz., to record this poor but sincere 

 tribute to the memory of an old friend and worthy member of the 

 Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club. 



T. W. W. S. 



April, 1892. 



* Baal. Durotrigensis a dissertation on the ancient colossal figure of 

 Cerne, Dorsetshire, &c. By John Sydenham, author of the history of 

 the town and county of Poole, &c. London : Pickering, 1842. 



