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Ceylon.” Not being strictly of local interest, an abstract of the 
paper is given as Appendix No. II to this Summary. Capt. 
Burmester held an appointment in the Royal Artillery for some 
years in Ceylon, and paid two visits to this remote hill fort. Mr. 
H. D. Skrine, who had succeeded Canon Ellacombe in the chair, 
when the latter had to depart in order to catch his train, read a 
letter which he had just received from a son containing strangely 
coincident with Capt. Burmester’s paper a pen and ink sketch of 
the hill of Sigari, but without an account of the ruins on the 
summit as the writer had passed the spot in ignorance that 
explorations were being carried out on the summit. In conclusion, 
he proposed a vote of thanks to Capt. Burmester for his paper 
which the Rev. H. H. Winwood seconded in a brief speech, 
On February 10th, 1897, the last Afternoon Meeting on the 
printed rota was held, and a very considerable number of Members. 
assembled to hear.a paper from Major J. Llewellyn Evans, on 
“The Stones of Carnac” in the arrondissement of Morbihan 
Brittany. Major Evans during a visit to Auray visited these 
alignments, Menhirs cromlechs and dolmens, and made very 
considerable and interesting notes of his observations. An abstract. 
of these is added to this Summary in Appendix No. III., the situa- 
tion in a foreign country and distance from the Bath centre not 
allowing the subject to be considered as strictly within the cable- 
tow of the Field Club, but nevertheless very instructive to its 
Members, for comparison with our own Megalithic monuments at 
Stanton Drew, Wellow, Avebury and Stonehenge. The subsequent 
discussion on the paper was interesting, having more reference to 
the Stone circles and avenues of our own neighbourhood. Rev. C. 
W. Shickle drew the attention of those present to the talented and 
exhaustive article on the Stone Alignments of Carnac by the Rev. 
W. C. Lukis, M.A., F.S.A., in Vol. XIII. of the “ Wiltshire Archzo- 
logical and Natural History Journal,” which is in the Field Club’s 
library, which article gives every opinion of weight or authority 
for the meaning and origin of these stone avenues and circles. 
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