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bling Japier maché. This was brought from Philadelphia ; it was given 
to him by Mr, G. H. Tatham to present to the Museum. 
Mr. C. F. DENNET said that the manufacture of articles from this 
substance had been carried on in the States since 1860, and he should 
be happy to present a specimen of the manufacture to the Museum. 
A. PECULIAR; FISH. 
Mr. C. F. DENNET remarked that during the meeting of the 
British Association in Brighton there was much curiosity and specu- 
lation as to what a peculiar vertebrate-like object then exhibited 
belonged. He had since come across a paper in which the subject 
was dealt with, and an illustration of the animal given ; it proved to 
be what in the United States was called a stick-fish. 
Mr. T. W. WonrFor said that the Alcyonium, or, as it was 
more commonly called, Dead-men’s Fingers and Sea Paps, very much 
resembled the stick-fish, and was to be seen alive in the Brighton 
Aquarium, 
Mr. DENNET promised to do his best to get one over alive from 
the States ; in any event, he would be able to present the Society with 
a dead one. 
CREMATION. 
The subject of Cremation was next discussed. It was opened 
by Mr. WonFor, who exhibited a part of a small clay vessel, which 
was dug up within about 200 yards of the Lewes Road Cemetery, and 
which he thought, from the fact of coins and pieces of pottery being 
found withit, might possibly be part of a small cinerary urn. Whether this 
was so or not, however, there was abundant evidence to show that the 
early inhabitants of this country, and also the Romans and Anglo- 
Saxons, burnt the bodies of their dead ; and in this way rendered it 
impossible for the survivors to suffer in any way from the noxious gases 
which arose from churchyards and cemeteries. 
Mr, DENNET pointed out that there was one advantage in being 
burnt. It would also prevent the decaying matter of bodies perco- 
lating springs and wells. But how about cases of poisoning and other 
forms of murder being found out ? ; ; 
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