Contents of volume 17 (1896)

(so the title-page: Sykes says published March 1897)

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(Annual Review), iv-lxxii
- Anniversary Address of the President, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, lv-lxxii
On the Inquisitiones Post Mortem for Dorset from Henry III to Richard III (1216-1485), E. A. Fry, 1-53
On New and Rare British Spiders observed in 1895, O. Pickard-Cambridge, 54-63
Evershot Church, P. H. Milne, 64-66
An Early Neolithic Kitchen Midden and Tufaceous Deposit at Blashenwell, Corfe Castle, Clement Reid, 67-75
On a Whirlwind at Bloxworth, O. Pickard-Cambridge, 76-79
Notes on the Churches of Gussage St Michael's and Gussage All Saints, Sir Talbot H. B. Baker, 80-86
- The Bells of Gussage All Saints, W. H. Stent, 85-86
On a new Dorsetshire Variety of Plantago coronopus, Linn., Edmund G. Baker, 87-95
On a Collection of Fossils from the Upper Greensand in the Dorset County Museum, A. J. Jukes-Browne, 96-108
St Margaret's Hospital, Wimborne Minster, Walter J. Fletcher, 109-114
On the Footprints of a Dinosaur (Iguanodon?), from the Purbeck Beds of Swanage, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, 115-122
Notes on two instances of Tenacity of Vegetable Life, H. J. Moule, 123-126
On a Romano-British Brick-kiln and a British Barrow at Bagber, Milton Abbas, with an Historical Dissertation on Pottery and Brick Making, J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, 127-134
Knowlton Church and Earthwork, Talbot H. B. Baker, 135-140
Water Analysis a Hundred Years Ago, T. B. Groves, 141-145
A List of Portland Lepidoptera, Nelson M. Richardson, 146-191
Flint Implements found at Portesham during 1894 and 1895, E. Cunnington, 192-193
Geology of the Portesham District, Osmond Fisher, 194-196
Report on observations of the first appearances of birds, insects, etc. and first flowering of plants in Dorset during 1895, Nelson M. Richardson, 197-209
Returns of Rainfall, etc., in Dorset in 1895, Henry Storks Eaton, 210-221