IV. 



INDEX TO PLATES, ENGRAVINGS, &c. 



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FACSIMILE OF THE WOODCUT IN " HYGINII POETICON ASTRONOMICON " 



DATE 1488, REPRESENTING THE CONSTELLATION " AURIGA ".. .. .. xxiii. 



NOTES ON BRITISH SPIDERS OBSERVED OR CAPTURED IN 1898 



New Spiders, Plate A 1 



RETURNS OF RAINFALL IN DORSET IN 1898 



List of New Stations shewing Position, Height, &c. . . . . . . 82 



List of Stations shewing Amount of Snow on Jan. 21-22, 1898 83 



Table I., Monthly Depth of Rain in Inches in 1898 88-89 



Table II., Rainfall in 1898 90-91 



Table III., Average Monthly Rainfall 92 



Table IV., Statistics of the Temperature, etc., at Winterborne 



Steepleton Manor 93 



Table of Rainfall Constants at 104 Stations in Dorset 96-97 



Table shewing Fluctuation of Annual Rainfall . . 98 



ATHELHAMPTON HALL 



Athelhampton before Removal of Church, Entrance Archway, and 



Gatehouse . . . . 122 



Old Culver or Pigeon House (from a photograph by Rev. T. Perkins, 



1899) 124 



The Gatehouse (from a photograph by F. Fane, Esq., 1862) . . . . 124 



THE ROMAN OCCUPATION OF WAREMAM 



West Wall of Wareham and Ditch, taken from Bloody Bank . . . . 148 



N.W. Angle of Wareham Walls, enclosing Site of Amphitheatre . . 148 



British and Roman Remains found in Wareham 153 



WOODSFORD CASTLE 



Newel Staircase, West Front 161 



NOTE ON A. FOSSIL CROCODILE FROM CHICKERELL 



Fig. 1. Three Dermal Scutes of Steneosaurus from Chickerell . . . . 171 



Fig. 2. Imperfect Right Ilium of Steneosaurus from Chickerell .. .. 172 



NOTES ON THE EFFECT OF THE GALE OF FEB. 11-13, 1899, ON THE BEACH 

 TO THE EAST OF WEYMOUTH 



1. General View of Beach looking towards Preston Coastguard Station 179 



2. View of Lodmoor Side of Beach, shewing Damage to Road and 



Skingle Promontories Washed into Lodmoor 179 



3. Men Clearing Shingle from Road, about half-way between Old 



Gatehouse and Coastguard Station 180 



4. Men Clearing Shingle from Road (nearer Coastguard Station than 3) 180 

 REPORT ON OBSERVATIONS OF THE FIRST APPEARANCES OF BIRDS, 



INSECTS, &c., AND THE FIRST FLOWERING OF PLANTS IN DORSET 



DURING 1898 



First Appearances of Birds in Dorset in 1898 188-9 



Earliest Dorset Records of Plants in Flower in 1898 190-1 



First Appearances of Insects, &c., in Dorset in 1898 192 



