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CONTENTS. 







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Page. 



List of Members . . . . . , . . . . . . v. 



Fossil Cycads, by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell . . . . . . 1 



On some Slabs of Trigonia Clavellata, by J. Buckman, F.G.S., &c. . . 19 



The Glass Rope Sponge, by T. C. Maggs . . . . . . 21 



On the So-called Fairy Pipes, by W. J. Bernhard-Smith . . . . 28 



On the Botany of a Dorset Parish, by Rev. H. H. Wood, M.A., &c. 32 



On some Diggings at East Farm, Bradford Abbas, by J. Buckman , , 53 



On Stamped Glass Bottles, by J. Buckman . , , . . . 59 



On the Salts of Iron, illustrative of the Colours of Rocks, by E. 



Cleminshaw, M.A. , . . . . . , . . , . . 63 



Daniel De Foe in Dorsetshire, by T. B. Groves, F.G.S. . . . . 67 



The Cherry, by E. Lees, F.L.S., &c. . . . . . . . . 76 



On the Species of Astarte, by S. Buckman . , . , . . 79 



On the Cherry Tree at Over Compton, by J. Buckman . . . . 93 



On Worked Flints, by J. Buckman . . . . . . . . 97 



Notes on the Portesham Cromlech . . ^ . . . . . . 104 



Notes on a Saxon Pendant from Dorchester > By the Editor . , 109 



"^otes on Adam and Eve Dishes . . . . * . . . . . . 112 



LIST OF PLATES. 



Frontispiece, Adam and Eve Dishes . . . . . . . . i. 



Mantellia nidiformis . . . . . . . . . . 1 



Trigonia clavellata . . . . , . . . . . . . 19 



Hyalonema mirabilis . . . . . , . . . . 21 



Plate of Astartes . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 



Ditto .. .. .. .. .. .. 86 



Cherry Tree at Compton . . . . . . . . . . 94 



Worked Flints— Arrow Heads, &c. . . . . . . . . 98 



Ditto Scrapers, &c. .. .. .. .. ..100 



Cromlech, Portisham ) jq^ 

 Ditto Morbihan ) 



Pendant from Dorchester, coloured . . . . . . . . 109 



Marginal Woodcuts, &c. 



