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EVENING MEETINGS. 



On Febiniary ]2th, our Vice-President, the Rev. Pre- 

 bendary Scarth, gave us an account of the results of his 

 recent explorations in company with Sir John Lubbock, 

 Professor Tyndall, and Mr. Connington, in the neighbour- 

 hood of Silbury, whereby it has been clearly ascertained 

 that the Roman road had been deflected some thirty yards 

 to the south of the Mound. This account was prefaced 

 with some remarks respecting the general course of Roman 

 roads through Britain, and the accuracy with which the 

 " Itineraries " or road books described the various stations 

 from the Euphrates to the north of Scotland, and from the 

 regions beyond even the Pillars of Hercules to the Rhine 

 and the Danube. The course of the Via Julia from St 

 David's, in Pembrokeshire, crossing the Severn Passage to 

 Sea Mills and passing by Bath to Calleva or Silchester, was 

 also described. 



March llth. — The subjects selected by Dr. Bird and the 

 Rev. H. H. Winwood for this evening's discussion were of a 

 somewhat cognate character. The former — under the title 

 of " Odds and Ends of Olden Time " — restricted his remarks 

 to the remains of the ancient races who inhabited tliis 

 country, as seen in the megalithic circles, the chambered 

 tumuli, or the long and round-headed skuUs which have 

 lately attracted so much attention ; the latter — giving the 

 results of " A Summer's Ramble amongst Flint Flakes " — 

 described the weapons and implements used by these long 

 or short-headed people. Dr. Bird having, by the aid of 

 photographs and drawings, pointed out the difference in the 

 shape of the various skulls, stated that in his opinion the 

 form of the barrows in which they were found corresponded 

 to the shape of the skulls ; e. g., as a general rule, the long- 

 headed race in Wiltshire was interred in the long barrows, 



