CONTENTS. 



PAGE 



Index to Plates and Engravings . . . . iv. 



Notice to Members . . . . y. 



List of Officers and Honorary Members vi. 



List of Members . . viii. 



List of New Members elected since the publication of Vol. XIX xviii. 



The Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club 



during the Season 1898-9, by Nelson M. Richardson, B.A., F.E.S xx. 



Hon. Treasurer's Statement of Receipts and Expenditure from May 9th, 1898, to 



August 1st, 1899 xlvi. 



Hon. Secretary's Accounts from May 1st, 1898, to May 1st, 1899 . . , 



> xlvii 



General Statement, August 1st, 1899 I 



Special Donations of Plates, Printing, &c., towards Vol. XX. . . . . . xlviii. 



Anniversary Address of the President, May 10th, 1899 xlix. 



Notes on British Spiders Observed or Captured in 1898, by Rev. O. Pickard- 



Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., &c .. .. 1 



On the Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Dorset from Henry VII. to Charles I. 



(1485-1649), by Edward Alexander Fry 23 



Returns of Rainfall, &c., in Dorset in 1898, with Appendix of Rainfall Constants 

 at 104 Stations, by Henry Storks Eaton (Past President of the Royal 



Meteorological Society) 81 



The November Meteors, by Rev. W. R. Waugh, F.R.A.S 99 



Coast Changes, by W. Whitaker, F.R.S ' 109 



The Influenco of Phoenician Colonization, Commerce, and Enterprise on England 



Two Thousand Years Ago, by Edward Cunnington 113 



Athelhampton Hall, by A. de Lafontaine 122 



A Contribution to the History of Dorchester, by the Rev. W. Miles Barnes . . 128 



Powerstock Church and Castle, by the Rev. Roger W. H. Dalison 137 



The Roman Occupation of Wareham, by George J. Bennett 148 



Woodsford Castle, by H. J. Moule, M.A 161 



Mapperton, by the Rev. Canon Gildea 167 



Note on a Fossil Crocodile from Chickerell, by R. Lydekker, B.A., F.R.S., &c. . . 171 



Eggardon Hill : Its Camp and its Geology, by the Rev. H. S. Solly, M.A 174 



Notes on the Effect of the Gale of February 11-13, 1899, on the Beach to the 



East of Weymouth, by Nelson M. Richardson, B.A., F.E.S 179 



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

 First Flowering of Plants in Dorset during 1898, by Nelson M. Richardson, 



B.A., F.E.S 182 



