PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

DORSET NATURAL HISTORY

AND

ANTIQUARIAN FIELD CLUB.

EDITED BY

W. MILES BARNES.

VOLUME XXIII.

Dorchester:

PRINTED AT THE "DORSET COUNTY CHRONICLE" OFFICE.

1902

J. C. MANSEL-PLEYDELL, D.L., F. L.S., F.G.S., &C.,

CONTENTS.

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Index to Plates and Engravings

Notices

List of Officers and Honorary Members

List of New Members elected since the publication of Vol. XXII.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB during the Season 1901-1902–

First Winter Meeting

Second Winter Meeting

Annual Business Meeting

CRANBORNE CHASE MEETING-

King John's House, Tollard Royal

Cranborne Manor House and Church

PORTLAND MEETING-

Wyke Regis

Sandsfoot Castle

Chesil Beach

A Portland Quarry

The Raised Beach

Pennsylvania Castle

FROME VALLEY MEETING

The Ancient Aqueduct ..

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Frampton Church

Frome Vauchurch

Wynford Eagle

Toller Fratrum

Hon. Treasurer's Statement of Receipts and Expenditure from Ap. 26th,

1901, to Ap. 26th, 1902

Hon. Secretary's Account from May 1st, 1901, to June, 1902 ..

In Memoriam: The late John Clavell Mansel-Pleydell, Esq., B.A., J.P.,

and D.L., F.G.S., F.L.S.

Anniversary Address of the late President, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, Esq.

The History (Recent and Palæontological) of the Roe Deer (Capreolus

Caprea), by J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, D.L., F.G.S., F.L.S.

On New and Rare British Arachnida, by Rev. O. Pickard-Cambridge,

M.A., F.R.S., &c.

Notes on the Reading of Contoured Maps, by Col. C. J. Russell, R.E...

The Seeing Power of Beasts and Birds, by H. J. Moule, M.A.

The Snows of Canada, by Vaughan Cornish, D.Sc., F.G.S, F.C.S.,

F.R.G.S.

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The Nesting of a Pair of Missel Thrushes, by Nelson M. Richardson,

B.A., F.E.S.

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On the Form and Probable History of Saxon Church Architecture, by

W. Miles Barnes

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An Experiment on the Movements of a Load of Brickbats Deposited on

the Chesil Beach, by Nelson M. Richardson, B.A., F.E.S.

Return of Rainfall, &c., in Dorset in 1901, by Henry Storks Eaton

(past President of the Royal Meteorological Society)

Creechbarrow: An Essay in Purbeck Geology, by W. H. Hudleston,

M.A., F.R.S., F.G.S.

A Short Account of the Cruciform Sun Dial at the Dorset County

Hospital, by John E. Acland

The Ancient Memorial Brasses of Dorset, Part I., by W. de C. Prideaux

Report on Observations of the First Appearances of Birds and Insects,

&c., and the First Flowering of Plants in Dorset during 1902,

by Nelson M. Richardson, B.A., F.E.S.

Index to Volume XXIII., by E. W. Young ..

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