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besides himself having liberty either to sell anything, or to introduce any strange 

 corpse. If any person shall dare to sell anything, or to introduce any stiange 

 corpse, he shall pay to the Senate and the young men two thousand denarii. 

 A copy of this inscription is deposited in the State-House. 



TRANSLATION OF INSCRIPTION No. II. 



I, Ulpius, the son of Julius, a native of Smyrna, a Senator, Master of the 

 Feasts, and one of the Prytanes, have purchased this Sepulchre. I have fitted it 

 up for myself and my wife Fortune, (Tyo.he,) and my children and my grand- 

 children and my domestic kindred and my freedmen ; no one else having liberty 

 either to bury any other person, or to sell anything hereout. If any one slial' 

 dare to do ought of the kind, he shall pay to the Sipylenian mother of the god 

 five thousand denarii. 



THIRD MEETING. 



Royal Institution. — November 15, 1852. 



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



At an Extraordinary Meeting, held previous to the ordinary meet- 

 ing, the recommendation of the Council, — " That the Society consider, 

 if it be not well to give the privilege of attendance at the Public 

 Meetings to the Presidents and Secretaries, ex ojiciisy of such Societies 

 as meet in the Royal Institution, or may be approved by the Society," — 

 was confimied, agreeably to the 46th Law. 



Mr. J. P. G. Smith read a communication on 



THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE. 

 It recorded his own observations, and classified the various notices 

 which have appeared in the public prints. 



The earthquake occurred about 4h. 28m. 20s., a.m., Greenwich mean 

 time, on the 9th instant.' There were five distinct movements, three in 

 one direction and two in the reverse, above E. and W. The motion 

 felt was the same as if the bed had been forcibly and rapidly moved 

 from side to side, and the total duration of the vibrations was from 

 one-and-a-half to two seconds, certainly not more than two seconds, if so 

 much. The windows and doors shook in their frames ; the crockerj', 

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