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objects was his paper on “The Past in the Present, in 
Asia.” 
The services rendered to science and literature by our 
late friend were appropriately and very deservedly acknow- 
ledged by Harvard University in 1901, on the occasion of 
a visit to North America. In conferring upon him the 
degree of Master of Arts, the head of the University 
pronounced the following eulogium:—“John Bellows, 
English Quaker; authority on’ Roman antiquities in 
Britain; delightful essayist; learned lexicographer.” But 
his fellow-countrymen also have not been unmindful of 
his services. It was our privilege to join with numerous 
friends throughout the county, to perpetuate his memory 
in the portrait which now hangs in the Council Chamber 
at Gloucester, where it appropriately appears side by side 
with another of Gloucester’s worthies, W. C. Lucy, our 
former President. 
We lose another distinguished archzologist in the 
Rev. David Royce, who held for 52 years the vicarage of 
Lower Swell, a village on the Cotteswolds. Mr Royce 
had made a fine collection of old coins, flint implements, 
and ancient pottery. He was associated with Professor 
Rolleston and Canon Greenwell in their investigations of 
the tumuli of the Cotteswold district. The later years 
of his life were occupied with the transcription of the 
Cartulary of Winchcombe, an ancient book which he 
found in the possession of Messrs Sewell, solicitors, of 
Cirencester. The Latin of this document is so crabbed 
and abbreviated as to be unintelligible to an ordinary . 
scholar, and its conversion into readable Latin occupied 
Mr Royce for fifteen laborious years. At the time of his 
death the work was nearly completed ; and its publication 
is to be expected shortly. 
The Rev A. W. Ellis-Viner exceeds even Mr Royce in 
the length of his tenure of a Gloucestershire living, having 
