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part of pieces of pottery, human bones, etc., of the 

 Roman period; also stereoscopic views of the Salisbury 

 cathedral and other sites of historic interest in that vicin- 

 ity, including Old Sarum and Stonehenge, the supposed 

 ruins of an old Druidical temple. He described the 

 Blackmore Museum in Salisbury, and exhibited a stone 

 implement from one of the mysterious "barrows" or 

 burial mounds on the plain about Stonehcnge. These 

 mounds are of different forms, and probably different 

 ages, and arc the most conspicuous objects in the melan- 

 choly scenery of Salisbury Plain. The soil is chalk, over- 

 laid by a thin, crispy turf. Some of the barrows have 

 been opened; and by searching in the half filled excava- 

 tion in one of these diggings, Mr. Bolles found this 

 spearhead, roughly chipped from flint, and exhibiting in 

 its weathered surface the marks of great antiquity. It is 

 about five inches long and two wide. Mr. Putnam, to 

 whom it was submitted, was uncertain whether to con- 

 sider it a complete implement of the rudest stone age, or 

 an unfinished one of a later period. Mr. Bolles made 

 these relics the subject of sonic unpremeditated remarks 

 of great interest, and we hope that he may be induced at 

 some future meeting of the Institute to give a more ex- 

 tended account of his recent researches amid the ancient 

 haunts of the Druids and the Romans in England. 



The Pkesident alluded to the recent donation from a 

 few friends of a valuable cast of the "Rosetta Stone." 

 The stone of which this is a cast was discovered near 

 Rosetta, in lower Egypt, in August, 1799, and is now 

 deposited in the British Museum. The inscription is in 

 three languages, Hieroglyphic, Demotic, or the language 

 of the country, and Greek. Being counterparts, or repe- 

 titions of each other, they give the main key and help in 



