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Aurelius et ^lius in the third line. Egit Commentai-ieiisis is not 

 common in inscriptions, though good Latin. The A at the end of the 

 second line forming the first syllable of A qua is considered too faint 

 to do duty as a letter ; omitting it the words would be mihique qiiacum 

 cliens Quintiis, which makes the sense more explicit, and the sentence 

 would run : — Vilbia Miuiana in company (of the little sister Jovina), 

 bethed four times (quater), with whom (qiiacum) my client Quintus 

 went as secretary, &c. The IV in the second line wants the dash 

 over it to mark it as a numeral, though this may have disappeared 

 with age ; if consequently this IV must be read as two lettei's, then 

 E CIY might stand for e civibus if Quintus were entitled to citizen- 

 ship ; or IV might mean IVIT if the reading e Commentariis 

 be adopted. 



The investigation of the circulation, quality, and quantity 

 of underground waters being one of the subjects about which our 

 Society, as one of the corresponding Societies of the British 

 Association, was requested to acquire information, an applica- 

 tion was made to the Baths Committee with a view to ascertain 

 whether any scientific observations had been carried on for a 

 series of years to dertermine the temperature and volume of the 

 Hot Springs. In reply to this your Secretary was informed that 

 the experiments as to the temperature, which apjiear to have been 

 carried on merely during the last two years, have been conducted 

 at the expense of a private physician in London. It is very much 

 to be regretted that accurate and scientific observations, in 

 connection with a subject so vastly important to the welfare of 

 the city and general public as the variableness or otherwise of 

 the flow, temperature, and mineral contents of these Hot Springs, 

 should not be systematically made. One other subject may be 

 briefly mentioned, the Club having offered to assist the Mayor 

 in his reception of the Colonial visitors on September 8th and 

 9th, your Secretary was placed on the Reception Committee, 

 and was in attendance at the Museum of the Royal Literary and 

 Scientific Institution during their visit on the latter day, and 

 briefly pointed out to them the valuable contents of the Moore 

 Geological collection. 



