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1. —Funerary Urn of the Bronze Age (on a bracket), pre¬ 
sented by the late Dr. A. Thomas. 
2. —The Hemsworth Villa Venus Pavement, a drawing to 
scale by Mr. Brumell (framed, in a case on stand). 
3. —Relics of the Pokesdown and Southbourne Prehistoric 
Villages, presented by Mr. D. Chambers. 
4. —Relics of Christchurch (Bolvelaunio) and district, pre¬ 
sented by Mr. George Brownen, F.C.S., These are as follows:— 
(1) . A case of Prehistoric Funerary and Domestic 
Pottery, 18 fragments (Bolvelaunio). 
(2) . A case of fragments of New Forest Roinano-British 
Pottery, 2 pieces (New Forest), with three typical amphora 
necks, 1 Celtic, 1 Greek, 1 Roman (Bolvelaunio). 
(3) . A small case of stone implements from Pokesdown, 
6 pieces (Pokesdown). 
(4) . A small case of stone implements from Katterns Hill, 
8 pieces (Katterns Hill). 
(5) . In small case, sling stones from base of Watch 
Mound, 3 pieces (Katterns Hill). 
(6) . Ten large worked stone weapons, sources named and 
dated (various). 
(7) . A case containing Coins of Vespasian, Galerius, and 
Constantine II., 4 coins (Bolvelaunio). 
(8) . A case of burnt and semi-fused Coins—the latest, 
Gratian, A.D. 375-383, 8 coins (Bolvelaunio). 
(9) . A case of English Coins, Henry (?), Henry II., 
Henry III., Edward I., 4 coins (Bolvelaunio). 
Botanical Collection. 
1 he Botanical Collection is still in course of being classified 
and mounted so as to afford means for students to identify their 
specimens and study the general character of the flora of the dis¬ 
trict. 
Among the dried plants that have lately been presented are 
285 (mounted and named) by Mr. R. V. Sherring, F.L.S. ; and 
825 by Mr. H. E. Swain. Other specimens are 9 Nipa fruits, 
presented by Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G. ; mounted sets of 
Marine Algae from Mount’s Bay, presented by Mr. R. A. de Paiva ; 
and from the Scilly Islands, by Mr. J. M. French. Various 
specimens of plants collected by Mr. James E. Liddiard in New 
Zealand and South Africa, and a collection of New Zealand ferns, 
presented by Mrs. Liddiard. Miss Ida Roper, F.L.S., of Bristol’, 
presented, in 1912, “ a valuable collection of dried English 
plants.” Thanks to the attention devoted to* them by Mr. 
Sherring, the local Carices (30 species) are well represented "in this 
collection. 
