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The PRESIDENT (Mr. Haselwood) said that cases of this kind 
very seldom occurred. Besides, there was something to be urged 
against every suggestion. He was glad to see that the public mind 
was so fully alive to the subject. 
Mr. G. ScotT was pleased that this subject had been brought 
forward. He had always held that the neighbourhood of the Round 
Hill Crescent, the Ditchling Road, and Hollingbury Castle would well 
repay being carefully investigated. In his opinion, however, the 
vessel in question was not a cinerary urn; they were generally very 
much larger—about half the size of one’s body (and he subsequently 
brought in an urn from the Museum, which bore out this opinion). He 
was rather disposed to think that it was one of the vessels which were 
usually deposited with the dead, and which contained food or drink 
for-the spirits of the departed. Mr. Scott then explained the 
various forms of ancient burial, and described the positions in which 
bodies were mostly buried when not burned. 
Mr. HASELWOOd: The burning of bodies ceased about the time 
of the introduction of Christianity. 
Mr. E. H. Moore showed that the ancients could not have had 
the means of reducing -bodies so thoroughly as we had now; they 
would not be able to get so great a heat ; consequently, there was a 
larger quantity of ashes left than there would by the process proposed 
by Sir Henry Thompson, 
Mr. BENJAMIN LOMAX adverted to the custom followed by the 
natives of Australia, in drying the bodies of their dead and carrying 
them about. After some further discussion the subject dropped, Mr. 
Wonfor half promising that the matter should be dealt with in a paper 
on some future occasion. 
THE HABITS OF ROOKS. 
The» habits of rooks were next touched upon. DR. CORFE 
enquired the reason of odd birds always being set upon by their 
fellows. In any cases rooks had been known to set upon single 
birds and kill them, and it had been suggested that it was for some 
social sin. Was this so; were bigamy and polygamy punishable among 
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