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PROCEEDINGS COTTESWOLD CLUB 
1918 
ORDINARY WINTER MEETINGS. 
Tuesday, February 19th, 1918. 
The President in the Chair. 
The following exhibits were made : — 
Mr. H. E. Norris : Fine specimens of Anglo-Saxon coins of Edward the 
Confessor, Athelstan, and Ethelred II., minted at Huntingdon, and examples 
of straw plaited work made by the French prisoners confined at Hunter’s 
Cross, Hunts. 
By Mr. A. E. Hurry : A copy of Mappa Mundi, published in Venice about 
the end of the sixteenth century. 
By Mr. C. G. Clutterbuck : A specimen of Cyaniris Argoluis (Holly Blue) 
of gynandro-morphous form, found at Torquay, August 8th, 1904. 
By Mr. C. I. Gardiner : (1) A piece of Coral said to have been taken 
from the Great Oolite, Minchinhampton ; (2) A new species of Lidias Maia 
from the May Hill beds, found in a quarry above Longhope Station, which 
bore no resemblance to ordinary forms ; (3) A new variety of Calymene 
papillaia, Lindstr, var. nov. puellaris. 
Sir Francis Darwin read a paper on “ The effect of the Cold Spring 
of 1917 on the Flowering of Plants,” printed post, pp. 11-20. 
Tuesday, March 5th, 1918. 
The President in the Chair. 
The President exhibited a silver Osella of Doge Domenico Contarini of 
Venice. Oselle ( uccelle ) were struck first in the year 1521. Early in the 
thirteenth century the Doges began to usurp the right of hunting and fishing 
then possessed by the Venetian nobles over the shallow waters (lagoons) of 
the city, and in return it became the custom to make compensation by pre- 
senting each of the nobles on the 1st December of every year with five wild 
ducks. In 1521 the Doges substituted a money payment for this tribute, and 
ducat-like coins of the value of one-fourth of a gold mark were struck and 
presented with the same ceremonies as were the birds. The example exhibited 
was one struck (anno III.) by a Doge in 1659-1675. 
The President also exhibited a Spanish Crystal Reliquary in its original 
stamped-leather case, and a forger’s plate of copper used for producing coinage, 
this particular plate containing forged pieces which had not been cut out. 
