FOURTEENTH MEETING. 

 Royal Institution. — 31st May, 1852. 



J. B. YATES, Esq., F.S.A., &c., President, in the chair. 



Mr. J. P. G. Smith exhibited an unpublished Map of the Roman 

 Roads of England ; also, specimens of Lepidopterous Insects, from Cali- 

 fornia, viz., Papilio eurymedia, Argynnis zerina, Melitcea calcedon; all 

 described by Dr Boisduval, in the Ti'ansactions of the Entomological 

 Society of Paiis. 



Mr. Sansom exhibited specimens of the following lately described 

 species of Hubi, from Leicestershire, viz., Rubus mucronatus, (Bloxam,) 

 R. nitidiiSy (Bell Salt,) R. calvatus, (Bios,) R. Lindleianus, (Lees.) 



Mr. Henry Behrend exhibited a figure in pure gold, taken from the 

 tomb of an Indian chief. 



Mr. George- Hunt exhibited a copy of a very ancient Bible. Owing 

 to the absence of the title page, Mr. H. is unable to ascertain what par- 

 ticular edition of the Scriptures this is. The title-page of the New 

 Testament is preserved, and bears date, 



" Yeare of oure Lorde 

 God. 

 M. D. XLIX." 



From minute information, very kindly furnished by the Rev. John 

 Sansom, of Oxford, there is ample internal evidence to show that it is 

 neither the reprint in 1549, of the earlier edition of 1537, generally 

 known as Matthewe's Bible, nor a reprint of Cranmer s Bible, which 

 also came out in 1549. From the fact of there being a prologue, 

 headed, •• Unto the Reader W. T.," and also a long prologue to the 



