xxii Proceedings. [March igtJi, igoi. 



Ordinary Meeting, March 19th, 1901. 

 Charles Bailey, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



Mr. E. F. Morris exhibited some sketches of recent excava- 

 tions in the Roman forum, and gave the following explanations 

 and information in reference to them. One of them represented 

 the rostra discovered in October, 1900, by Signor Boni, which 

 belong to the last period of the Republic, and are stated to be 

 those from which Antony delivered his famous speech. The 

 monument hitherto believed to be the only rostra erected under 

 Julius Caesar may now, probably, be assigned to about 

 the period of the Flavians and Trajan. The newly-discovered 

 rostra consist of five little vaulted rooms, exactly as seen on the 

 w^ell-known medal of Palikanus, built, in opus reticulattim, of tufa 

 and concrete. 



Other sketches represented the shrine and fountain of 

 Juturna. The former is an redicula in brickwork, running in a 

 North and South direction, its front decorated with two marble 

 columns supporting an architrave on which is carved the name 

 of the deity to which it was consecrated. In front of the shrine 

 is a circular well with an elegant marble head, ornamented with 

 a carved cornice on which is an inscription stating that the 

 well was consecrated to Juturna by Marcus Barbatius PoUio. 

 Professor Vaglieri affirms that this Pollio is the personage men- 

 tioned by Cicero, who was quaestor of Lucius Antonius in 41 i5.c. 

 Before the well is a marble altar with a sculptured front on 

 which are figures of Mars and of a female deity, Juno or Venus. 

 Signor Boni is of opinion that the scene is taken from Virgil, 

 and represents Juturna taking her final leave of her brother 

 Turnus. 



The skill of Signor Boni in directing the excavations has also 



