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was too late to visit the Donheads on returning ; and it was not till 

 past eight o'clock that the excursionists returned to Shaftesbury, 

 thoroughly delighted with the day's work. 



A conversazione was held in the Grammar School, by kind per- 

 mission of the Rev. T. Perkins, the Head Master : but it was past 

 nine o'clock before, on the motion of the Secretary, the Rev. Canon 

 Jackson was called to the chair, which he occupied in his usual 

 happy manner. Two very interesting papers were read, one by the 

 Rev. T. Perkins, on the " Geology of the Neighbourhood of 

 Shaftesbury/' the other by the Rev. W. F. Short, on " Gnostic 

 Amulets." 



At the conclusion of these papers, Canon Jackson thanked the 

 authors of them for the great interest they had severally created in 

 their respective subjects. And then, as this was the concluding 

 Meeting during the stay of the Society at Shaftesbury, he proceeded 

 to express the gratitude of the Members to the inhabitants of 

 Shaftesbury for the reception which had been given them ; more 

 especially to the Mayor and the Corporation for the refreshments 

 they had provided on the previous evening, and to Mr. Perkins for 

 similar hospitality that evening. The Rev. A. C. Smith moved a 

 special vote of thanks to Canon Jackson for presiding over them in 

 the absence of their President ; and then the company adjourned to 

 the garden, where Mr. Perkins' big telescope was erected in an 

 observatory, and here for an hour or more some still lingered, en- 

 joying the rare treat of a view of the moon through a powerful 

 telescope, adjusted for them by a competent astronomer. 



FRIDAY, AUGUST 8th. 

 Very nearly the same company, and as nearly as possible in the 

 same numbers, filled the breaks in the Market Place at 9, a.m., and 

 immediately drove without any halt over the tremendous hill which 

 intervened till they dropped down on the romantic village of Tollard 

 Royal, nestled in a sequestered combe beneath the overhanging 

 downs. The Church at Tollard Royal was visited, the most in* 

 teresting feature in which was the mailed effigy of a cross-legged 

 knight. Here Mr. Swayne came to the front; and described the 



