'70 IJnncenH Society. — Flint Gloss. 



Mr. Douce exhibited to the society a French marriage 

 token, never used as a coin, and consequently not noticed 

 in any work on coins or medals. On the one side it bore 

 the circular inscription " Pour Epouse," round Henrs de 

 lys, with a D at the bottom j and on the other '* Denirs de 

 Foy," with united hands. These tokens were formerly 

 given in betrothing brides. JVIr. D. quoted several decrees 

 and ceremonies relative to the performance of marriage, 

 and among others a decree of the council of Toledo, pro- 

 hibiting the queens of Spain to marry a second time. 



The Kight Hon. Sir J. Banks, Bart. President of the 

 Iioyal Society, communicated a curious parchment roll, ex- 

 hibiting the marks itiade on the berdcsof swans and cvgnets 

 in all the rivers and lakes in Lincolnshire, accompanied with 

 an account of the privileges of certain persons keeping 

 swans in those waters, and the duties of the king's swanherd 

 in guarding these fowls from depredation, and preventing 

 any two persons from adopting the same figures or marks 

 on the bills of their swans. The number of marks con- 

 tained in the parchment roll amounted to iig, all of which 

 were diflftrent, and confined to the small extent of the bill 

 of the swan. The outlines were an oblong square, circular 

 at one end, and containing dot?, notches, arrows, or such 

 likefigures, to constitute the difference in the marks of each 

 person's swans. Laws were enacted so late as the 1 2th of 

 Elizabeth, for the preservation of the swans in Lincoln- 

 shire. 



LIXN.?EAN SOCIETY. 



January l6.-^Dr. Maton, vice-president, in the chair. 

 Head a description of some new species of plants from New 

 Holland, by Edward Rudge, esq., F.L.S. Part of a paper 

 Uy William Spence, es(j., F.L.S , was also read, on a ge- 

 nus of insects named Choleva by Latrci.llc, with a descrip- 

 tion of eighteen British species, which was prefaced bv 

 feome remarks on the comparative merits of the different 

 eysiems of entomolojzv. 



XL Intelligence and Miscellaneous Aitichs, 



FLINT GLASS. 



X HE French artists still continue their exertions to manu«^ 

 J'acture flint glass to rival if possible that of this country. 

 In our 33d volume we gave a report of a committee aj)- 

 pointed by the French Institute to examine some attempts 



of 



