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first volume of a Roman History. In this work, which is in the 

 highest degree promising, the learned author has put forth precisely the 

 same opinion respecting the Rape of the Sabines which has been 

 nmintained in the above paper. Professor Schwegler uses the term 

 aetiological, with which he designates all those apparently historical 

 traditions which are in reality fictions, intended to account for the 

 origin of old institutions, handed down from time immemorial. The 

 author of the present paper has, in preparing it for the press, availed 

 himself of Professor Schwegler's able exposition of the true character of 

 Census, who, though viewed originally in the same light as now, was 

 not so fully and satisfactorily proved to be, what he really was, a 

 Chthoniau god of fertility. 



SEVENTH MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — January 24, 1853. 



JOSEPH DICKINSON, M.D., F.L.S., &c.. President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Joseph Boult, Hon. Secretary 

 of the Architectural and Archaeological Society, dated 15th January, 

 1853, transmitting copies of the following resolutions, passed by that 

 Society, viz. : — 



1. That, on all occasions of special interest, the Secretary be autho- 

 rised and directed to extend to the Officers of the other learned 

 Societies in this to\vTi the privileges of admission possessed by the 

 Members of the Architectural and Archaeological Society. 



2. That the Circulars be regularly sent to the Presidents and Secre- 

 taries of those Societies, gi^'ing them the right of admission to the 

 ordinary Meetings of the Session. 



It was resolved unanimously, 



" That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Architectural 

 and Archaeological Society, for their invitation to the OflBcers of this 

 Society to attend their Meetings." 



