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Dorset Iis'pory DORSET IIS'PORY FIEIiDGItHB. EDITED BT C. W. H. DICKER. VOLUME XXXI. Dorchester : PRINTED AT THE "DORSET COUNTY CHRONICLE" OFFICE 1910 V.SI CONTENTS. List of Officers of the Club since its inauguration . v. Rules of . the Club . vi. List of Officers and Honorary Members . xi. List of Members . , . , . xii. of List New Members since the publication of Vol. XXX. , xxiv. of Publications the Club ; Societies in correspondence with the Field Club . xxvii. THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CLUB during the Season 1909-1910 First Winter Meeting . xxviii. Second Winter Meeting . ... xxx. Annual Meeting . , . xxxiii. MEETING AT THE VALLEY OF THE N.E. WINTERBOURNE . xxxvi. Winterbourne Stickland .. .. .. .. xxxvi. Winterbourne Clenston Manor House . xxxvii. Winterbourne Clenston Church . xxxvii. Winterbourne Whitechurch . xxxviii. Winterbourne Kingston . xxxviii. Winterbourne Anderson . xxxix. Winterbourne Tomson . xxxix. Aimer . , . xl. Sturminster Marshall . , . xli. MEETING AT POOLE HARBOUR . xlii. Arne Church . xliii. MEETING AT SALISBURY AND STONEHENOE . xlvi. Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury . ; . ,. xlvi. St. Edmund's Church . xlvii. The Cathedral . -> . xlviii. Old Sarum . 1. Amesbury Priory Church . li. li. Stonehenge . MEETING AT ABBOTSBURY AND BRIDPORT HARBOUR . liii. Abbotsbury Castle : . liii. Swyre Church . liv. Puncknowle . v . liv. Berwick . , . , Ivi. Burton Bradstock . Ivi. The Geology of the Coast , . Ivi. Iviii. The Hon. Secretary's Report , The Hon. Editor's Report .. .. .. .. lx. Report of the Hon. Director of the Photographic Survey of Dorset Ixi. The Hon. Treasurer's Statement o the Club's Receipts and Ex- penditure . Ixiii. The Hon. Secretary's Account .. .. .. ixiv. Anniversary Address of the President . 1 Notes on the Present Condition of the Dorset County Museum, by the Curator.. ., .. .. .. .. 24 Some Dorset Privateers, by Henry Symonds . 30 On British Arachnida, noted and observed in 1909. by the Rev. O. Pickard -Cambridge, M.A., F.R.S., Ac. .. .. 47 IT. PAGE The Birthplace of Matthew Prior, Scholar, Poet, and Diplomatist. 7 1 Dorset Chantries, by E. A. Fry 85 The Normans in Dorset, by the Rev. C. W. H. Dicker .. .. 115 Returns of Rainfall, Ac., in Dorset in 1909, by H. Stilwell . 129 The Geology of the Purbeck Hills, by Dr. W. Theophilus Ord .. 141 Notes on a Large Boulder found at Branksome, Upper Parkstone, by the Rev. H. Shaen Solly, M.A. .. .. .. 161 The Pitt Family of Blandford St. Mary, by Rev. A. C. Almack, M.A. 1 65 The Story of the Bettiscombe Skull, by J. S. Udal, F.S.A. .. 176 Weymouth and Melcombe Regis in the Time of the Great Civil War, . 204 by W. Bowles Barrett . Short Report on the Excavations of Maumbury Rings of 1910, by H. St. George Gray .. .. .. .. 232 Report on the First Appearances of Birds, Insects, &c., and First Flowering of Plants in Dorset during 1909, by Nelson M. Richardson, B.A. .. .. .. .. 267 Some Recent Books, <fec. 281 Index to Volume XXXI. 283 INDEX TO PLATES AND ENGRAVINGS. PAGE OB TO FACE PAGE. Wilfrid Hudleston Hudleston, M.A., F.R.S. Frontispiece Dorset County Museum, 1910 .. .. .. .. 24 Matthew Prior . 71 80 " " Normans in Dorset Examples at Wimborne Minster, Wynford Eagle, Studland, Worth Matravers, Dorchester St. Peter's, Piddletrenthide, Dewlish, also at Pe>iers (Norrnandv) and Hangleton (Sussex) .. .. .. .'. .. .. 129 Piers at Sherborne, Maiden Newton, Godmanstone, Studland, Piddletrenthide, and Bere .. .. .. .. 129 Studland Church in the 12th Century .. .. .. 129 " " The Geology of the Purbeck Hills The Geological Structure of the Purbeck Hills in transverse section near their Eastern termination in Ballard Down ; the Purbeck Hills (Central Section); the Purbeck Hills (Western End). Diagrams illustrating the formation of the Purbeck Thrust Fault ; the original Monoclinal Fault ; the complete Fault . 142 Boulder found at Parkstone. 161 Bridehead Sarsen (I. and II.) .. .. ,. 163 Branksome Boulder (III. and IV.) .. .. .. 163 Bettiscombe Skull and Bettiscombe House .. ., ,. 177 Montravers, Nevis ; Old Slave Dungeon, Montravers .. 189 of Pedigree the Pinney Family (British West Indies) . 203 DESCRIPTION OF PLATE A. FIG. 1. Clubiona facilw, sp. n. 2. Profile of cephalothorax. 3. Genital aperture. 4. Microneta passiva, Cambr. Palpus, female. 5. Genital aperture. 6. Ditto in profile. 7. Hypselistes florens, Cambr. Profile of cephalothorax, male. 8. Caput and eyes from in front. 9. Palpus, male, outer side. 10. Genital aperture, female. 11. Araeoncus oequus, sp. n. Female. 12. Profile of cephalothorax. 13. Genital aperture. 14. Notioscopus sarcinatus, Cambr. Male. 15. Profile of cepthalo- thorax. 16. Radial and cubital joints of palpus. 17. Genital aperture, female. ,,18. ? Troxochrus scabriculus, Westr. Female, genital aperture. 19. ? Troxochrus cirrijrons, Cambr. Female, genital aperture. 20. Eboria caliginosa, Falconer. Male. 21. Profile. 22. Cephalo- thorax and eyes from in front. 23. Palpus, male, outer side. 23a. Genital aperture, female. 24. Xysticus luctator, Thor. Palpus, male, showing palpal organs. 25. Genital aperture, female. 26. 26 27. ,, Xysticus robustus, Hahn. and Palpus, male, shewing form of radial joint above and below. 28. Genital aperture, female. 29. Attus caricis, Westr. Male, profile. 30. Cephalothorax from above. 31. Palpus on outer side. 32. Genital aperture, female. 33. Ditto from another example. N.B. The short lines in the Plate indicate the natural lengths of the various spiders. PLATE A. Proc.Dorset,N.H.&AF. CM, Vol.MXI. lant JcErsldne.lJU. in NEW AND RARE BRITISH SPIDERS. NOTED AND OBSERVED IN 1909. By Rev. 0. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., F.R.S., &c. PLATE A. T AM still indebted to the kind assistance of corres- pondents for the greater part of the materials on which the following remarks are based. With their help, the result of the past year's collecting and observations enables me to record the addition of several species to the British and Irish List. Of these, two are, it is believed, new to science, and three others are recorded as new to the British list. These last three are specially remarkable, having been described and two in 1872 figured by myself many years ago ; (Notioscopus sarcinatus, Cambr., and Cornicularia Kochii, Cambr.) from Bavaria and Warsaw, and the third (Hypselistes florens Boston in in since those Cambr.), from North America 1875 ; dates (excepting a male of C. Kochii from Holland in 1889) no record of their occurrence has been made until their discovery now in England. Further reference will be made to these in the subjoined list. I must here mention a fine Clubiona received from Mr. W. P. Winter, of Shipley, York- shire. This appears to be undoubtedly new to science (on this spider see postea, p. 68). Besides the above, I have re- ceived several rare from the Forest two very species New ; 48 ON BRITISH ARACHNIDA. were sent to me by Mr. Horace Donisthorpe, and one by were first Dr. A. R. Jackson ; the two former recorded as British from a single specimen of each, found in the Bloxworth district, Dorset, in 1854, and the other from several immature examples found by myself in the New Forest in 1858. Since these dates neither of them has been met with until this past notes on these also are added year. Further (postea) ; their names are Xysticus robustus, Hahn, and Xysticus luc- tator, L. Koch (two of the largest and handsomest of the European Thomisids or crab-spiders), the third being Oxyopes heterophthalmus, Latr., whose nearest allies are continental and exotic. I have now again to thank my many friends and correspondents for their kind assistance during the them Dr. A. ell past year ; especially among Rand of Chester Mr. Jackson, M.B., D.Sc., ; Horace Donisthorpe, 58, Mr. Kensington Mansions, London ; William Falconer, r Slaithw aite, near Huddersfield ; Mr. Denis Packe-Beresford, Ireland the Rev. J. E. Bagenalstown, ; Hull, Whitfield, Mr. Ruskin Northumberland ; W. Butterfield, Hastings, Mr. F. P. Sussex ; Smith, 15, Cloudesley Place, Islington ; P. Yorkshire Mr. H. H. Mr. W. Winter, Shipley, ; Harrison, Mr. G. A. Birtley, Durham ; Dunlop, Stockton Heath, Mr. Wallis Cheshire ; Kew, 12, Werndon Road, Wandsworth ; Mr. F. T. Cheltenham Mr. J. H. Palmer, ; Keys, Plymouth ; Rev. J. H. Bloom, Whitchurch, Stratford-on-Avon ; Mr. Eustace R. Corfe Castle Dr. Brocken- Baiikes, Norden, ; Sharp, hurst Dr. Great Mr. Cecil ; Grierson, Grimsby ; Warburton, Mr. A. G. Dr. Cambridge ; Burton, Goole ; and G. H. Oliver, M.D., Bradford, Yorkshire. If further information is required on any of the Arachnids " in the following list, I would refer to Spiders of Dorset," 1879-81 and to its ; Papers published since, in annual Pro- the Dorset Field Club as well as ceedings, 1882-1909, by ; " " of to the List British and Irish Spiders (Sime and Co. : 1900). Also, for information upon some of the less numerous " groups of British Arachnids, I would refer to Monographs ON BRITISH ARACHNIDA. 49 " on the British Phalangidea or Harvest Men, 1890 (Vol. XI.), and on the British Chernetidea, or False Scorpions, 1892 (Vol. XIII.), published in the Dorset Field Club Proceedings. I should mention here that Papers have also been published during the past year on some British Spiders, by the Rev. J. E. Hull (Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Northumberland, Durham, " and Newcastle-upoii-Tyne, ii.s.,Vol.IIL, Part 2, and Natural- " ist," 1909, August 1), and by Mr. W. Falconer, Natural- ist," August and September, 1909, and February, 1910. Mr. T. Stainforth, of the Municipal Museum, Hull, also gives a List of East Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire Arachnids in Trans, of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club. I must not conclude these few introductory remarks without thanking the Dorset Field Club most heartily for having so long continued to publish my annual remarks and notes on a subject not congenial (to say the least of it) to the greater part of our members. I wish I could report that my efforts had prevailed upon some, or some one of them at least, to take up this special branch of natural history but the student of investigation ; coming arachnology among our Dorset Natural History and Field Club members is still coming, though when he or she may arrive who shall say ? LIST OF NEW AND RARE BRITISH ARACHNIDA.
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