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The Archaeological, in conjunction with the 

 9 bept., i0i i.. photographic Section, visited Witchampton, a 

 most picturesque Dorset village, and afterwards the remarkable 

 ruins of Knowlton Church, standing within a prehistoric fortress of 

 the Bronze Age. 



On this date the Archaeological and Photographic 

 27 ep ., 191a. s ect i ons 0 f j-h e Society again united to visit 

 Crouch Hill, a mound fortress in Stanpit Marsh, near Christchurch, 

 a site near a Roman Via and also famous for events in the 10th 

 Century. Afterwards the party inspected the broken Christchurch 

 Bar and the new outlet of the rivers Avon and Stour. 



This excursion, the last of the season, was to the site 

 4 c ., 191 1. of the Augustinian Priory of Breamore, from thence 

 to the ancient church of Breamore and its Saxon remains ; and from 

 these passing through the Park to the front of Breamore 

 House, the Tudor Mansion ot Sir E. Hulse. From Breamore the 

 excursionists proceeded to Downton and inspected the famous 

 mounds now in the gardens of the Moot House. From the 

 Downton Moot the party passed to Downton Church, and J. M. 

 French, Esq., who acted as the conductor for the party, read papers 

 both at Breamore and Downton which enabled the party to under- 

 stand the churches visited. 



Hofanfcal 3qttwn. 



Chairman : Miss C. Agnes Rooper. 



During the Winter and Spring Sessions a few members of this 

 Section under the leadership of the Chairman (Miss C. Agnes 

 Rooper) met every Tuesday morning in the Society's Rooms to 

 arrange the Society's Herbarium, 



A Sectional meeting was held in the Society's 

 ov. 19, 1910. room> Mr. Alexander Scott presided. A paper 

 illustrated by magic lantern slides on the geographical distribution 

 of trees was read by Miss C. Agnes Rooper. 



Sectional meeting. The subject for the meeting 

 ec. 15, 19 10. was gjjQj-i. communications on botanical specimens 

 of various kinds, (Miss C. Agnes Rooper presided.) Sir Daniel 

 Morris, k.cm.g., give a most interesting lecture on the Citrus or 

 Orange Family. Mrs. Nicholson showed two curious bails formed 

 of the debris of sea-weed rolled up by the action of the sea. These 

 had been found on the shores of the Mediterranean. Miss C. Agnes 

 Rooper showed and described a specimen of Tillandsia usneoides. 

 She exhibited and drew attention to the mildew known as Oidium 

 Euonymi-japomcce. 



