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Mr. H. J. Moule read a paper entitled " Notes on the Manor of 

 Fordington " (printed at pp. 152162). 



The President read a paper on "An Interment on the Verne, Portland " 

 (printed at pp. 222238.) 



The Kev. W. Miles Barnes read a paper entitled " The Diary of William 

 Whitway, of Dorchester, Co. Dorset, from JNov., 1611, to Nov., 1634," 

 from a MS. in the British Museum. The writer was one of the leading 

 burgesses of the Dorchester of his day and owned an estate in the parish 

 of Martinstown see pp. 5781. This brought the meeting to a close. 



THE SECOND WINTER MEETING. This was held at the County 

 Museum at Dorchester on Wednesday, Feb. 10th, 1892. The chair was 

 taken by Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, the President, at noon. Three new 

 members were elected. The Treasurer laid on the table the reports of 

 the National Footpaths Preservation Society, 'to which the club is a 

 subscriber. Some discussion took place on the schedules issued by the 

 Field Club for recording observations on biids, plants, and insects, to 

 which Mr. H. S. Eaton, who had taken a leading part in drawing out the 

 schedules for a similar purpose now in use by the Royal Meteorological 

 Society, contributed the benefit of his experience. The feeling of the 

 meeting was opposed to reducing the list of species to be observed, which 

 was suited to the varied features of the county of Dorset. 



The migration of the nightingale then formed the subject of some 

 discussion. Mr. Pearce Edgcumbe said that the town of Dorchester 

 seemed to be situated on the extreme western limit of the nightingale 

 country. Some years ago two nightingales visited Dorchester and took 

 up their abode in the Cemeteiy. They were identified by their eggs 

 found in the nest. Mr. Eaton said he heard a nightingale during the 

 previous spring at Lyme Kegis, and he learnt that nightingales were 

 occasionally heard there. This, of course, was considerably west of the 

 county town. The Rev. O. P. Cambridge said he had heard them 

 frequently many years ago in Yellowham Wood. Mr. Moule said they 

 were still to be heard there. Mr. Thomas Hardy had told him that in his 

 youthful walks between Dorchester and his home at Higher Bockhampton 

 he often heard the nightingales all the way. The Chairman said he 

 thought Yellowham Wood was about the western limit of the tract of 

 country frequented by the nightingales. Why they neglec ted the western 

 part of England for the eastern part he could not understand, unless it 

 was on account of the prevailing winds. 



The President read the first paper on the programme of the day 

 "Kirnmeridge Coal-Money and other Manufactured Articles from the 



