Telford-Smith, Telford, Esq., M.D. Romansleigh, Wimborne

The above list includes the New Members elected up to

October 1st, 1902.

New Members

Elected since the Publication of the List

contained in Vol. xxii.

The names of the Proposer and Seconder are given in brackets opposite to the names of the new Members. The addresses may be seen in the general list of Members.

PROPOSED DEC. 3RD, 1901; ELECTED AT DORCHESTER
FEB. 25TH, 1902.

Thos. A. R. Littledale, Esq., 11, Greenhill, Captain Rickards.

Weymouth

Rev. Herbert L. Wright, B.A., Church

Knowle Rectory, Corfe Castle

W. E. Pearson, Esq.
President.

Rev. J. C. Mansel - Pleydell.

PROPOSED FEB. 25TH, 1902; ELECTED AT DORCHESTER,
MAY 2ND, 1902.

The Proceedings

OF THE

Dorset Natural History & Antiquarian Field Elub

DURING THE SEASON 1901-02.

Three indoor and three outdoor meetings of the club have been held in the course of the year.

THE FIRST WINTER MEETING of the Club was held in the Reading Room of the Dorset County Museum on Tuesday, December 3rd, 1901, at 12.15. There was a large attendance.

NEW MEMBERS.-Two candidates for membership were proposed for election at the next meeting.

GENERAL BUSINESS.-The Hon. Secretary presented to the Dorset County Museum Library, on behalf of the Club, parts for 1899 of the Journal of the National Museum, Montevideo, S. America, and a pamphlet by Mr. Clement Reid, the eminent geologist, "On Seismological Investigation. Locality suitable for Observations on Earth movement." The pamphlet deals principally with the remarkable Fault at Ridgway Hill.

EXHIBITS.

BY CAPTAIN A. RICKARDS:

Professor Dunn,

A large round bronze weight adorned with shields of arms. of Edinburgh, an expert in bronze objects, described it as a proof weight, being a hollow bronze ball filled with lead, which could be adjusted by adding to, or subtracting from, the lead filling.

BY DR. G. E. CRALLAN :

A water-colour drawing of the eggs, magnified about 500 times, of the following lepidoptera:---Vanessa Atalanta, Thecla W. Album, Hemerophila Abruptaria, Catocala Fraxini, Tæniocampa Munda.

BY W. DE C. PRIDEAUX :

Rubbings very carefully made of the Skerne and Turbervyle brasses in Bere Regis Church, together with rubbings of both sides of a "palimpsest" brass from Yealmpton Church, South Devon, and of the Crokker brass from the same church. Plates of the Bere brasses will be found in this volume. Mr. Prideaux hopes to continue, and in time to complete, rubbings of the whole series of the ancient memorial brasses of Dorset.

BY CAPTAIN J. E. ACLAND:

A full-sized wooden model of the cross sundial in the grounds of the Dorset County Hospital. A description of this sundial, with an illustration, will be found on page 191.

BY E. CUNNINGTON:

Fossils from the Oxford Clay and a fine blossom of the Habrothamnus elegans, which blooms for eight months out of the year, at Weymouth.

BY CAPTAIN ELWES:

Some curiously-shaped flints, which Captain Elwes suggested might have been used as "totems."

The following papers, all of which are printed in this volume, were then read and discussed:

:

1. "The History of the Roebuck (Capreolus Caprea), Palæontological and Recent," by the President.

2. "On New and Rare British Arachnida" by the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, F.R.S.

3. "The Nesting of a Pair of Missel Thrushes from the Observations of Mrs. N. M. Richardson" by the Hon. Secretary. 4. "A Puzzle about the Seeing Power of some Beasts and Birds" by H. J. Moule, Esq.

5. "Notes on the Reading of Contoured Maps" by Colonel C. J. Russell, illustrated by a contoured map of the district round Weymouth.

The meeting ended at four o'clock.

THE SECOND WINTER MEETING was held in the Reading Room of the County Museum on Tuesday, February 25th, at

12 noon.

In the absence of the President, the chair was taken, at the request of the meeting, by Dr. Vaughan Cornish, D.Sc., F.C.S., F.R.G.S., a vice-president of the Club.

NEW MEMBERS.-Mr. Thos. A. R. Littledale, of 11, Greenhill, Weymouth, and the Rev. Herbert L. Wright, of Church Knowle Rectory, Corfe Castle, were elected members; and six candidates were proposed for membership.

EXHIBITS.

BY THE CURATOR OF THE MUSEUM:

A fine specimen of the Machrocheirus kampferi, or giant crab of Japan, which has been presented to the Museum by Mr. Dare, of Yokohama. The crab has a spread of 8 feet; some specimens measure 16 feet across.

BY CAPTAIN ACLAND:

Two ancient mechanical orreries, one dated 1794. The Rev. W. R. Waugh, commenting upon them, observed that one was a tellurian orrery; the other showed the planetary system, but did not include Uranus, which had not then been discovered, and Saturn was represented as the furthest planet.

BY THE REV. S. E. V. FILLEUL:

A pocket-flint and steel match-lighter in ivory or buckhorn, dug up on the site of the old Bell Inn in Icen Way.

BY CAPTAIN RICKARDS:

"An Indian butterfly. Kallima Machis, Bdv., N. W. India, which has a very rapid, irregular, pitching-about flight, now high over tree-tops, then low. It is fond of the shelter of large trees, near the roots of which it suddenly pitches; and, when pitched, you may hunt long to see it, however carefully you may have watched it settle, so perfectly does it resemble a dead leaf." (Capt. A. M. Lang, Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, i. 181.)

Punjaub. Occurs at Murree (7,700 feet) and Abbottabad (4,200 feet). This is probably its extreme western limit. The colouring is paler, and the specimens are rather larger than those from Burma. (Surg. -Capt. N. Manders, E.M.M., xxviii. 91.)

The divisional line on the underside of the wings, which resembles the mid-rib of a leaf, is not a peculiar feature of this butterfly, but is found in a modified form in other species, and may tend to their concealment in a less degree.